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Saturday, 19 October 2024

The Women with Cat's Eyes



I wanted to share this curious folk tale from New Mexico about cats, witches and eyeballs! It's called "The Women with Cat's Eyes" and found in "Tone the Bell Easy" book by J. Frank Dobie. Originally published in 1932, a collection of folk stories from Texas and Mexico. 

It begins with a man who fell in love with a pretty girl named Pilar with green eyes. He wanted to marry her but he wasn't keen on sharing his life with a girl whos' creepy sister named Fefe was always there. Fefe had brown eyes and he wanted to date Pilar and not her sister Fefe. So he remained friends with both sisters and for many years he visited them in their house. He played cards with them and over the years it became routine, until one day (night) things changed. 

He heard rumours about the sisters being witches. Not interested in that, he visited the sisters but they never answered the door. He found their place empty but for two pairs of eyeballs near the small fireplace. He lifted them up using an iron spoon, and found one set of eyes were green and the other brown. He flung them into the fire and watched them dance up and down like ping pong balls. Both sets of eyeballs tuned black in the flames and looked like walnuts. 

Two cats arrived hissing at the man, and they tried to attack him. He made the sign of the cross and left the house. The following night he visited the home of the sisters, and they let him in. There were the cats hissing at him, but this time they lacked eyes! The two women though, they had different eyes now, and their eyes were the glowing eyes of cats!

She Wolf Night     

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