The Legend of the Siempreviva

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Legend has it that a man traveling through Yucatan could hear a sound coming from a plant, without understanding what was happening, he continued walking until the noise became clearer, which came from the evergreen yerba and this one asked him? Are you Balam? A question to which the traveler replied that he did not and the plant then wanted to tell him his sad story that made it the flower that he could now hear.

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She told him that her father was a respected man in the tribe and she was a woman priestess, so she could only love her God and prevent her from giving love to a mortal. However, over time he met a man named Balam, of whom he was totally in love and his father knew of the encounter that they always had behind him. Because of this she made the determination to punish the couple, she would sacrifice her to the God Kinich and force her beloved to see everything that was happening in front of her.

When the day of his sacrifice arrived and they dressed for the same one, he felt a pain in the chest as if they had taken his heart to him, the same rolled still beating by the stairs until arriving at the feet of its love, that fled with the heart After hearing that it would be his forever. Balam buried it at the foot of the temple and told him that he would return for it. Many full moons passed and he never saw the love of his life again, but now it was a wild herb and he would always wait for it.

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Nowadays it is possible to know the town of Misnebalam is a totally deserted place however it has some places intact, since there were residents in what now denominates like a ghost town where they practice spells and witchcraft according to the legends that happen. This site is located in the 15km of the highway of Mérida and has its name in base to Misne that is "Tail of cat", as well as to Balam that is "Jaguar".

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Within the municipality of Progreso in Yucatan, Mexico is Misnebalam which is a very good place to live, but it has no residents. The last 21 inhabitants that were left were left in the year 2000, because of this reason now this site is known as the ghost town of Yucatan and there are reasons for this to happen. The year that most people had the town was during the year 1910 and by that time there were a total of 168 people living there. More than 90 years ago was spread the legend that all the inhabitants of Misnebalam left the town because they constantly witnessed the apparitions of "Juliancito" that would come to be a ghost.

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The legend of this ghost who is the best known within the town starts from a child who was the son of two hacendados and would have been raped before he met death, so his soul required vengeance from those who did not defend him in such a situation. These ghost legends take on more truth when it is said that two players from the Airsoft club were practicing around the doing and had an encounter with a ghost.