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subido <strong>de</strong>l lado <strong>de</strong> la sombra y, cuando<br />

cumbrearon al jaz <strong>de</strong> la paré <strong>de</strong> adobe<br />

<strong>de</strong> la casa <strong>de</strong>l brujo, la luna los pintó<br />

<strong>de</strong> yeso y <strong>de</strong> carbón. Rondaron la casa<br />

hasta dar con la puerta <strong>de</strong> tablas, que<br />

estaba cerrada, pero con luz en las<br />

heridas. Felipe llamó, golpeando con el<br />

<strong>de</strong>do. La voz <strong>de</strong> Mujica se oyó friolenta<br />

<strong>de</strong> vejez:<br />

—Rempujá, Felipió...<br />

Felipe empujó y entró, seguido <strong>de</strong><br />

Chema, quien llegaba aflegido a la vez<br />

que curioso.<br />

El brujo estaba sentado en una calavera<br />

<strong>de</strong> vaca y envuelto en un perraje<br />

colorado. Tenía por <strong>de</strong>lante un hornillo,<br />

sobre una mesita; y en él echaba, al<br />

<strong>de</strong>scuido, granitos <strong>de</strong> una resina que<br />

jedía a cacho. Era consu mido y <strong>de</strong> ojos<br />

ñublados, prieto como laja <strong>de</strong> dulce<br />

amelcochado y con bigote gris en<br />

las puntas <strong>de</strong> la boca. Al mirarle con<br />

cuidado la nuca y las manos, parecía<br />

como hecho <strong>de</strong> hule en bruto. Les<br />

ofreció taburete.<br />

—¿Qué les sirvo, muchá, la oración <strong>de</strong>l<br />

puro o el muñeco <strong>de</strong> cera?<br />

Chema no comprendía. Felipe se puso<br />

grave.<br />

—Para éste —dijo con voz temblona—<br />

la oración; para mí, una muñeca con<br />

aljiler en el mero corazón.<br />

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shady si<strong>de</strong> and when they reached the<br />

summit the moon painted them with<br />

coal and chalk on the si<strong>de</strong> of the wall of<br />

the adobe house of the sorcerer. They<br />

walked around the house until they<br />

found the woo<strong>de</strong>n door. It was closed,<br />

but with light emerged in the wounds.<br />

Felipe knocked on the door with his<br />

knuckles. Mujica’s voice, frozen with<br />

age, answered:<br />

“Push the door, Felipe.”<br />

Felipe pushed and entered, followed by<br />

Chema, who was nervous and curious<br />

at the same time.<br />

The sorcerer, seated on a cow’s skull,<br />

was wrapped in a red shawl. In front<br />

of him there was a small stove on a<br />

small table. He put grains of resin that<br />

smelled like a bull’s horn. The sorcerer<br />

was very skinny with cloudy eyes, dark<br />

like a piece of molasses candy. His gray<br />

mustache trailed down the si<strong>de</strong>s of his<br />

mouth. Taking a closer look, he seemed<br />

like ma<strong>de</strong> out of rough rubber. He<br />

offered them stools.<br />

“What would you like boys, the cigar<br />

prayer or the wax figure?”<br />

Chema did not un<strong>de</strong>rstand. Felipe’s<br />

voice turned grave.<br />

“For this one,” he said with shaky voice<br />

pointing at his brother “the prayer. For<br />

me, a doll with pins stabbing right into<br />

the heart.”

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