La viuda de Santo Domingo – The widow of Santo Domingo

Hello, again!

Have you ever been at Santo Domingo’s church or neighborhood? It is located in Quito’s downtown, and this week I want to tell you about a mysterious legend there.

The story said that once for a long period of time, a lady walked through the streets at that place between midnight until 3 AM in the morning. A woman said that one night after her work, she wanted to know the hour because, she forgot her watch, and saw far away in one corner of the street, there was a lady with an elegant black dress and a big coat so, she went straight to ask the hour to that woman.

Thus, she realized that lady did not have face because, she was only a skeleton. The woman run away with a lot of screams, she only wanted to come back to her house, and to not die before she did it. After some time, one man saw the same lady, when he was walked at midnight in Santo Domingo’s neighborhood.

For that reason, this mysterious lady was called “The widow of Santo Domingo”, after her constant public appearances, and the fear that people at place had, this lady started to appear from seven o'clock at night.

No one could leave their house after that time so as not to meet the widow, and the houses closed their doors very tightly so that she did not enter either. One day, a brave group of young people went hunting to remove her from the place at once, but she never appeared, nor did she ever do it again.

Some friends who lives there told me that people says she disappeared inside the cemetery or maybe she was lost there, and that is why she cannot return to the streets.

Do you know another stories of “The widow”?