Jembatan Iblis. Puente del Diablo in Coatepec, Veracruz, Mexico. The Devil’s Bridge.
One day, the great count, Francisco de Hernández de la Higuera, met a beautiful woman, daughter of a Spanish landowner who lived on the other side of the river. Impressed by her beauty, he tried to relate to her, but her father opposed that relationship.
He did not give up and managed to establish correspondence with the lady, agreeing to a date one night behind the bars of her house. The expected day arrived, but a furious storm caused the waters of the Pixquiac River to rise, destroying the wooden bridge that connected both farms.
On one bank of the tributary he waited for the waters to subside, but this did not happen, the storm was relentless. That night, they say, the devil unexpectedly appeared, who offered the lover to build a bridge in exchange for his soul.
Francisco accepted on the condition that the structure be completed before the first rooster crow.
The demon got to work, while the disconsolate count prayed, begging God to save his soul, but above all that the rooster would not crow, with the promise of building a chapel.
The reddish light began to be glimpsed on the horizon, a prelude to dawn; Satan was about to finish the bridge.
Young Francisco’s mulatto nanny was passing by, asked him for an explanation and he told her what had happened, and then she decided to help him.
When the set time was about to arrive and the devil was preparing to place the last stone to collect his prize, the lullaby perfectly emitted a rooster, waking up everyone else so that with its song the dawn would be announced.
When the devil heard him, he felt defeated and tried to destroy his work, but it was too late, he couldn’t and in his attempt he only managed to leave his claw in the lower part of the bridge.
At dawn, the locals came to contemplate that magnificent work, among the crowd was the landowner and his daughter, who, moved by what his refusal had caused, accepted the procession and days later the wedding was celebrated.
Gisela Uscanga – La garra del diablo en el puente – https://www.identidadveracruz.com/2018/10/27/la-garra-del-diablo-en-el-puente/
https://paulopages.blogspot.com/2008/08/el-puente-del-diablo-infraestructura.html
https://www.tumblr.com/zacualpan/119075349540/el-puente-del-diablo
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