-By the beginning of the 16th century, in the town of Córdoba of the 30 knight's, belonging to the state of Veracruz in Mexico, an old local legend tells that there lived a beautiful and young woman who no one knew where she had Arrived, her beauty was so special that every man who had the fortune to know her, or at least to see her from afar, were attracted to her, black and Spanish blood ran through her veins, named as María de la Soledad García Arenas, but better known as: the mulatto of Córdoba.
-It is also said that she was very knowledgeable in the arts of medicine, that she conjured storms, could predict eclipses, tremors and that she came to prevent pandemics, that she cured only with natural concoctions, that she prepared in large pots, that gave the entire community to drink that he trusted her blindly.
-Although most of the natives considered her a holy and good woman, religious and superstitious fanatics considered her a witch, and claimed that she had a pact with the devil, that she had magical powers, and the gift of ubiquity, upon learning of the holy inquisition, they wasted no time in arresting her, and sending her to the San Juan de Ulúa prison, accused of witchcraft.
-However, despite the fact that it was said, that in her house, lights that came down from the sky could be observed, after sunset, as if a diabolical ritual were being carried out, it was never verified, most of the witnesses They declared in her favor because she was also considered a powerful sorceress, especially in the area dedicated to almost impossible miracles, those who came to her healed of incurable diseases, the young marriageable women who had been abandoned by their boyfriends after giving them their virginity , they saw that they returned to put themselves definitively at their feet, and obtained urban benefits such as employment and family welfare, apparently the arts of sorcery of the mysterious and beautiful mulatto had no limits when pleasing their clients.
-It was also affirmed that she had the gift of flying, and that she did it on the rooftops at night, alarming the guard dogs, although there was never an eyewitness to affirm that prodigy.
-Many affirmed that it was possible to see it at the same time, in the city of Córdoba and in Mexico City, which in parapsychology is known as bilocation and in popular beliefs as the gift of ubiquity, or the supernatural ability to be in two places simultaneously.
-There was no doubt that the mulatto woman from Córdoba.
knew the twists and turns of the ancient teachings of magic, not for nothing in Mexico, when someone receives a request that is impossible to fulfill, he answers: I am not the mulatto woman from Córdoba! Her fame has reached our days.
-Because for them, if the mulatto cured someone of an incurable disease, it was going against God's designs and making fun of their religion.
-The beautiful mulatto woman was put on trial, many of the prosecution witnesses who raised serious accusations of her had been clients of her, she was found guilty, but mainly because of the testimony of a mayor of Córdoba; Mr. Martin de Ocaña, who had tried to conquer her by means of expensive gifts, without having obtained her favors as a woman, because the mulatto never accepted him and refused to go out with him, more than anything because he was a married man, the obsessive insistence The mayor's name became the public domain, and not even managed to convince her, who, in spite of himself, to justify himself to his wife that she was the daughter of a Spanish nobleman, said that he had been a victim of her magical arts.
-And so, she was found guilty of witchcraft and sentenced to relaxation; in other words, to be executed at the stake in a public sentence by the civil power, she set a date for the application of the death penalty, after a period of a few weeks.
-But a couple of days before the date of her execution, an incessant downpour was unleashed on the city of Córdoba.
And the entire region, never had so much water been seen falling from the skies, the streets were submerged in brownish liquid and muddy, suddenly, an intense roar was heard from the walls where the cells of the San Juan de Ulúa jail, were located, and in the middle of the hurricane storm, the guards saw the mulatto who with a piece made of coal, she drew a sailing ship on the wall in the middle of big waves, the drawing did not have many details, but it looked breathtakingly real, as if it could suddenly jump off the wall, flooding the dungeons.
- How was my boat, gentlemen?
-She asks a couple of guards, who admired the drawing from outside the bars.
-Well, the truth madam; it just need to navigate!
- Well, sail then!
-Says the mulatto and advancing towards the wall, she blurred between the drawing and the wall, outside, from the shelter of his windows, the prisoners and the prison guards, saw how the mulatto Soledad, flying over the waves among the hurricane winds, approached a small ship that emulated the shapes of a Spanish galleon, but of dimensions adapted to the body of the beautiful woman,
Who was carried away by the fury of the storm away from the fortress, lost among the angry waves without anyone being able to do anything to prevent it, since the rain was so intense that it did not even allow walking, much less sailing in pursuit of the small galleon.
-When the flood subsided, the heads of the penitentiary could see on one of the walls of the mulatto's cell, the charcoal drawing of a ship sailing in turbulent waters, and the guards who, having lost their reason, declared that the prisoner, She had climbed on that ship drawn on the wall, then the word spread that with her satanic powers, the woman had summoned a ship from somewhere in the other world, to escape from the impregnable prison, since then, she has never returned namely the mulatto woman from Córdoba, a saint for some, a witch for others, and her ancient magical arts were lost forever. –End her story solemnly; María de la Soledad García Arenas.