072. El Cabro de la Calle de Bueras (The Goat of Bueras Street)
Illusions – Ilusiones
From Cuentos Populares en Chile (Chilean Folktales) – by Ramón A. Laval
Part 2 – Myths, Traditions, Things (Mitos, Tradiciones, Casos)
(Told in 1912 by the 17-year old child D. Enrique Alfaro, of Santiago.)
On Bueras street in Santiago there was, years ago, a fig tree, and every night a goat came out from [among] its roots to roam from one end of the street to another. A butcher, whose name was Alejo and who lived in a house situated near the fig tree, followed the goat one night and caught up to it; but, although he stabbed it many times, he couldn’t injure it, for it was purely an illusion.
—– VOCABULARY —–
Bueras – (Spain) pimple
Raíz – (botany) root; (origin) root; (cause) root; (anatomy) root; (mathematics) root; (linguistics) root; (computing) root