When talking about sandwich people, it is possible that Edgar Allan Poe's fantastic story "The Black Cat" immediately comes to mind.This cruel and scary punishment was something quite common in many countries, especially in Spain.Cities such as Cartagena or Cordoba, have their own local stories where they tell shocking facts where the victims were almost always women, examples of the cruelest of machisms to want to punish or make disappear to that wife who has been found with the lover, or that lady for whom the husband is no longer interested.
In fact, in Burgos, there is a town called Modubar de la Emparedada , which for many historians could refer to a lady of good standing who, after contracting the plague, was treated and cured while the walls of the Church were "sandwiched", although for other experts, the "sandwich" would come in reality of "emperor", r efferred to King Alfonso VI.
Be that as it may, the pairing was more than a mode of torture, it was sought above all to make the person disappear, and if there is a story surprisingly associated with this theme, is the story about a Sevillian lady in 1868.Terrifying!
A night work that was halfway completed
We are in Seville, in 1868 .The incredible story of the sandwich lady of Seville begins one night this year in a small neighborhood of the city.It is here where a humble Albanian lives with his family who, just when the mists of the dawn fill the streets of the beautiful city with silence and stillness, are surprised by some knocks on the door of his house that take him out of his pleasure I dream.
He is a gentleman in a good position dressed in a cape and hat.On his face, you saw the impatience of who is used to command, and in his expression, it also reads a nuisance that he wants to get rid of as soon as possible.The stranger suddenly puts a gun to his chest and orders him to follow him, but not before forcing him to take his work utensils, and also put a blindfold on his eyes.The strange gentleman does not want Know where you are going to drive it.
So, feel it forcibly in the carriage and suggests that you have two options: Receive a bag of gold for a night job of which you should never reveal anything, or receive a good amount of lead in your heart that will take you to the next world in a sigh, to be abandoned later in a dirty alley wrapped in blood.The poor Albanian has no choice.Seat under the bandages that cover your eyes and attend as you can to any sound that can reach you from the outside, to try to get your bearings.
In the end the carriage stops, and is hurriedly taken out to enter later in a house.He feels the sound of his own steps and even falls repeatedly when he is dragged by that man to what looks like a basement.That's when he removes the blindfold and discovers the task he must do: cover a wall. The job takes up a couple of ho flush, and at no time can you see what is hidden behind that wall in which, you must cover a large hole.There is only darkness and silence .However, you know very well that this is not normal, that this is not right.
Once the disturbing task is finished, he is paid the gold bag and a last threat is added, if he says something of what he has done, at the least thoughtful moment, death would come to him in the most cruel and unexpected way.
Esteban, who is called the protagonist of this story, nods and lets himself be taken back to his house.Once in it, he goes to the bed to forget everything lived.However, the thoughts do not stop hovering, harassing and giving terrible clues to the purpose that could have that wall that closed one of the walls, and what there could have been...Led by remorse can not help getting up again and call the Guardian Judge. The story is consistent and nobody doubts him, and what's more, Esteban is a skilled man, he knows that during his night trip I hear the sound of a church marking the rooms, and the only church in all of Seville that marked them was that of San Lorenzo.
Do you know how the story ends? With a terrible discovery that, fortunately, has a good ending.After that wall that Esteban himself had built, was an unconscious young woman, the daughter of the owners of a confectionery called “La campana”, who was married to a Cuban landowner who in fact, he was a scammer .A man who, driven by jealousy, related to his wife...although such atrocity did not end up going as expected, fortunately.
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