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The Legend of Lemery
A long time ago, a couple is living in a small hut near the mountain. They are the poorest of the poor. They were accused by a rich person for a crime they did not commit and they were imprisoned. Fortunately, they escaped and hide in the forest.
One day, a woman named Juana got sick. The husband doesn’t know what to do to cure her wife back to health. Not far from the house of the couple are three mounds of almost the same shapes and sizes. These three mounds possess a mystery. At night these mounds are glowing and there is some singing. The couple is unaware of the bizarre things happening because it happens at midnight moon. on a full
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One night, Juana got really sick so the husband was forced to go out and find some leaves and herbs to cure her wife. It was midnight and a full moon so the man saw the peculiar phenomenon. He saw three dwarfs in the three mounds sitting and singing. The man was so terrified. He wants to run but he
cannot that he was not aware that the dwarfs were in front of him. The three dwarfs asked the man what he is doing there in the middle of the night and the man tried hard to respond saying he needs some leaves and herbs to cure her wife of sickness.
The three dwarfs took pity and they immediately came to see the sick Juana.
After a while, the three dwarfs told the man who his wife is healed. The couple thanked the dwarfs who before leaving respectfully introduced themselves as Le, Me, and Re.Many years had passed and the couple bore many children but the three dwarfs never appeared to them again. The man always tells this story to their children.
One day a tree flourished in the middle of the three mounds. It grows so fast and became a giant wood. At night this tree is full of thousands of fireflies that look like a huge lamp that shines through the darkness especially during a moonless night.
When the Spaniards came, they asked about the name of the tree and the locals said, Lemere. Shortly thereafter, they called the place Lemery.
Source: https://dreamcatcherrye.blogspot.com/2016/04/theplace-of-lemery.html?m=1
