Count the Leyenda that la Candileja either Bola de Fuego era en vida una mujer hermosa llamada candelaria que contrajo matrimonio con un hombre de fuerte carácter, parrandero y coplero llamado Esteban; de este matrimonio nacieron dos hijos varones, uno de ellos llamado Sigifredo y otro llamado Esteban como su padre.
One night the husband was preparing to attend the town festivities without his wife. She warned him not to go out to these festivities unless it was with her. The husband refused to take her. It was then that the young woman, in an act of anger, She took an ax and regardless of the fact that her two children were in front of her, she hit her husband with an axe, killing him on the spot, then she forced her children to help her bury her husband.
(Also know: The Legend of the Pata Sola)
As the years passed, the widow received countless suitors, but none managed to conquer the beautiful woman who dedicated herself to raising her children. When Sigifredo turned 15, he became a tall, handsome and good-looking young man. that his mother seduced him and made him her lover, the woman jealously took care of him and was scared of any suitor that the boy had.
When Esteban, the youngest son, turned 15, he also acquired an attractive appearance. He was a young man with a strong character, manly and with good manners, so his mother acquired desires for him and tried to seduce him as with his brother, but he refused. By having a greater understanding of society and how bad those acts were, so the woman blinded her son again with anger and murdered her son, since she had the idea that if he was not with her no one could be there.
The woman grew old without repenting for her actions. When she died, Saint Peter received her and for her bad actions condemned her to wander the world engulfed in flames, frightening and punishing unfaithful men, drunks and those who like to wander at night.
In other versions of the legend of the Candileja or Fireball it is said that:
La Candileja or the Fireball was in life an old woman who spoiled her two grandchildren to no end, who were poorly educated, rude and cruel to her own grandmother.
The two grandchildren spent the whole day jumping from one place to another, breaking objects and household furniture, doing humiliating pranks on the old woman, one of those humiliating pranks was asking their grandmother to get on all fours and act for them as a mule or pack horse, to then mount it, the old woman, in order to please them, agreed and they saddled her and spent the whole day on the poor old woman's back, when the woman died and came to give her account to heaven, Saint Peter received her. angry and scolded him and criticized the lack of harshness in his education towards his grandchildren and for this reason I condemned him to purge his sorrows in the world in the form of three balls of fire that have flaming tentacles, the three balls of fire represent the body of the old woman and her two grandchildren.
(Also know: The Legend of Mohán or Poira)
The terrifying footlight appears at night on old roads and scares night travelers with its imposing presence. It usually inflicts punishment on unfaithful men and on parents who spoil their children.
He is often considered a very protective spirit of children, punishing teachers who allow the abuse of older children towards younger ones, adults who force children to work, and guiding children who get lost in the streets. night towards their homes.
These two are the best known versions of the legend, but there are others in which it is said that she was a woman who died cremated in her house along with her children in the Valley of Sorrows (Tatacoa Desert), in another it is said which is the spirit of a woman of strong character who in a fit of anger killed her son Juan and who is condemned to live in the world in search of seven men named Juan from the same mother and until she gets them she will not be able to dissipate her punishment. and in another it is said that it is the spirit of a couple who had sexual relations before marriage, during the act lightning struck the cabin where they were and the fire enveloped them until they became a ball of fire that wanders through the world incapable to turn off.
(Also know: The Legend of Mother Monte)
¿Cuál es el origen de la leyenda de la Candileja?
La Candileja is a legend that has its origin in the eastern plains of Colombia, although it has several versions about its origin, almost all of them agree on the fact that she was a woman punished to suffer for the world; Sightings have been recorded over the years by locals who claim to have seen the fireball along trails and mountains. These sightings have been mostly in summer, but some report them on rainy days.
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Scientifically, many have explained the phenomenon under two theories, one of them is fires caused by high summer temperatures and another is that during strong storms a meteorological phenomenon called St. Elmo's fire is caused, which is a phenomenon caused by the ionization of the air. and that causes luminescence in metal fences and wind indicators.
¿Cómo protegerse de la Candileja?
The most effective protection against this fear is to shout rudeness, expletives, bad words and accuse her of being an evil being, since prayers and prayers, instead of scaring her, attract her; you can also throw a lasso as far away from the fear and this anger. behind him, that is when the person must take the opportunity to escape.
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