The Dread (El Espanto)

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Good morning, Irma. How are you?

Everything okay?

Okay? That's good. Great.

THE DREAD

Adrenaline.

Adrenaline.

Adrenaline.

Adrenaline.

Adrenaline.

Adrenaline.

Adrenaline.

Adrenaline.

Hold it here.

It's all because of your tendons.

It's not arthrosis. It's your tendon.

My tendon.

Almost everyone knows how to cure something here in the countryside.

Me, for example,

if I have a tooth ache, I rub a little frog here.

If you get a tooth ache, there are no dentists here.

How do you calm a tooth ache? It's not easy.

Not even taking antibiotics.

I just rub a frog on my face, that's it.

Done.

You lose your tooth, but who cares?

We never see a doctor, only when we need surgery.

We don't go because we cure each other.

There are no doctors here in El Dorado. If we see one, we just say hi.

We cure ourselves with herbs, healing methods,

words, whatever.

But we do get cured.

There are several healers.

Yes.

- Olga too. - Yes.

Olga, then there's the butcher, Daniel Moretti.

Yes.

Mabel, the lady on the other side, Christian Chotro's mother.

- She's never home. - She heals too.

They text me the name

and the disease and I cure them.

And I start yawning

because I'm curing her. If you don't yawn, you're not healing.

Excuse me, but that's how it works.

Yes... with this...

with this string, practically.

Whatever the problem, hemorrhoids, stomachache,

liver problems, tendon pains, back,

waist or arm pains...

Abdominal swelling, intestinal cramps, all that.

It's one arm... two arms...

and three arms.

If there's a problem, it shortens to two arm's length.

It's as if the string gets shorter.

They cure you with the string. You don't need medicine.

If you go to the doctor, you need to take a pill.

They have to see which medicine works

because they don't know what it is.

If someone is sick... I saw someone that was sick,

he came here once and I talked to him.

I said, "my advice is to pump your body with adrenaline.

Don't just sit there.

If you just think about the disease, it'll progress.

So you need to pump adrenaline in your body,

be cheerful and positive...

That way there's no room for sadness.

Pump adrenaline in your body and you'll see what I mean."

I cure "goat's leg", indigestion,

and evil eye.

Goat's leg takes 9 days to cure.

And you can't skip a day or you have to start all over again.

If you stop, you have to cure for three days and stop for three days.

Then go on for three days, stop for three days, and so on.

My mother taught me to cure it. Not many people can do it.

How does this phenomenon occur?

No one knows.

But you get good results,

it's effective, no doubt about it.

It's effective.

It's hard to believe that by saying a few words...

It won't work if you say something else. It has to be those words.

No, I can't tell you! I can't say the words.

Because I can't.

You can't.

If you tell the words, you lose...

You lose power.

I cure, but I don't charge. I don't want anything.

I think that...

with faith, free of charge, a person has to get better.

I'm a Catholic and people say they want to give me something,

but I won't accept anything. "I cured you and I've forgotten."

No!

They can't charge you, healers can't charge.

They say they lose their power.

No, I don't charge.

Some might charge, but I don't. I do it out of love.

"Walk", I said, "get up and walk."

But he didn't dare!

"Walk, I'm curing you." And he started to walk.

He couldn't believe he was walking!

"Walk, walk over to me", I said.

And the boy stood up!

I don't charge. If you charge, you're not helping.

You don't help if you accept money. I don't.

If you want to give me something, it's your choice.

But you know what my reward is? Having cured the boy.

That's the most sacred thing, seeing your boy walk again.

Adrenaline, adrenaline, adrenaline.

Adrenaline, adrenaline, adrenaline.

Adrenaline, adrenaline, adrenaline.

Adrenaline.

Adrenaline, adrenaline, adrenaline.

Adrenaline, adrenaline, adrenaline.

Adrenaline, adrenaline.

Adrenaline.

Adrenaline, adrenaline.

Don't stop! Don't stop! Adrenaline.

Adrenaline into my body.

Adrenaline into my body.

Adrenaline into my body.

Adrenaline into my body.

This pumps a lot of adrenaline into my body, it feels great.

As always, dear. 100-60.

Her blood pressure is fine but since she had a fever

and cough, I would recommend to hospitalize her.

That way we'll all feel better.

¡No! Doctors won't cure her.

Doctors won't cure her.

No, I don't think doctors can cure her. It's espanto.

With her symptoms, poor woman,

I don't think doctors can cure her.

Doctors have never cured anyone with espanto.

No, no.

They won't cure her.

They won't. You can't cure that.

It's like a case of indigestion.

Doctors can't cure it. Only a healer can.

It has to be a healer. You can't see a doctor.

What can a doctor do?

He can give you something to calm the pain.

"Take a pill, calm down." He can give you that.

But after a while it will return. It comes back, it comes back.

And what do you do? The problem continues.

You have to see someone who will get rid of it.

Your face changes, you look different, you're scared!

It's espanto!

- The expression on your face. - It's espanto.

It usually happens to women.

I never heard of a man.

It's usually women who have it.

Women get espanto because they're weaker.

Men don't.

Men are stronger.

Women get espanto, very badly.

Of course! You're horrified.

And that produces a terrible state of mind.

You even get depressed.

You feel like staying in bed, you have terrible headaches.

Some women have those symptoms.

Headaches, fever,

a kind of depression.

But that comes after the espanto, that is, after the shock.

You're in a state of shock.

You're shocked after seeing something,

for example, something white without any feet,

and you see it flying, you can't explain it.

It usually happens at night. Like every scare.

Like the White Widow that shows up on a highway,

or “chancha de lata”, that makes a lot of noise and you see nothing,

or the "bad light", when you can't explain a light.

Espanto is like that, it happens at night.

We were coming down here that night.

The girl was nervous.

I said to her: "Calm down, nothing bad will happen."

"It will", she said. "No, it won't, calm down."

So when we got here, she shouts: "Sergio, here comes the light!"

It was a big light and underneath there were a lot of colors.

And then we went that way. Over here.

She was freaked out, she couldn't say a word.

She was pale,

white as a sheet, trembling.

She wouldn't respond.

She was in such a state of shock that she couldn't snap out of it.

She didn't even want to go out, she said she was being watched.

She was taken over by espanto.

Until finally,

they treated her. She got better but it stayed with her.

No.