- Source: Norte Edición Digital diarionorte.com.ar/index.htm
June 30, 2002
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- SAENZ PEÑA
(Agencia) -- "This is a matter of "Mandinga" ('Red Magic').
No animal can die that way, it didn't scream, something weird is going
on," said Maria Eusebia, referring to the strange case involving a
mutilated horse missing an eye, its tongue and its anus. It was found by
residents of La Chiquita, located some 8 km, east of Presidencia Roque
Suarez, located on National Route 16.
Stories received yesterday regarding this event made evident the consternation
felt by local residents, who believe that these events "are the work
of practitioners of red magic."
On the night of the alleged animal mutilation, "the dogs slept like
bears and didn't bark, despite the fact that they slept right next to the
horse," added Maria Eusebia.
Daniel Acuña, who happened to pass that location on his way to work
in the early morning hours, claims having seen red lights over some trees
on many occasions, "like an evil light, which I was told are those
who practice red magic."
The event, as was indicated yesterday, occured over a month ago, adding
to the mysterious mutilation of more than 60 animals found in the provinces
of La Pampa, Rio Negro and Buenos Aires, but the case was only made known
on Friday, after the horse had been buried. "They took out its eye
completely, but there was no bleeding. They also took out its tongue and
anus, but there was no blood on the ground, nothing at all," said
Emilia Lopez, another resident of the ranch in which Agustina Torres, the
horse's owner, also lives. Torres "in order not to suffer, since
she misses [the horse] so much, went off to Quitilipi," said locals.
In the property where the mutilation took place, located some 8 km of Saenz
Peña, almost on the tracks of the Belgrano Railroad, there are several
neighboring ranch dwellings, in which the horse--named Dominga by the local
children--"was like a pet."
"He was tame, good, young and had just grown out of colthood, "
said Adriana, a young girl saddened by the horse's fate. "But doña
Agustina Torres became ill, because that was the horse with which would
pull her cart to seel firewood and coal in town. She won't be able to feed
herself now, " she adds.
One of the woman's children, Diego Torres, is still amazed: "It's
not normal. We buried him because here in the countryside we know nothing
about the Chupacabras that the TV talks about. But the incisions were perfect--there
was no blood, and if [the perpetrators] were human, the horse should have
whinnied a little, beacuse it's not going to let its tongue be cut out.
It's also weird that the dogs didn't bark, either."
The animal's owners and neighbors cannot find an explanation to the event
"because we have seen other animals die of old age or disease, but
never like this, without screaming or bleeding." For this reason,
some women did not hesitate to assign the event to "practitioners
of red magic," in their own words.
Translation (C) 2002 Scott Corrales, Institute of Hispanic Ufology. Special
Thanks to Pablo Omastott, CEUFO.
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