![]() ![]() Within the atmosphere of superstition and religious mania prevalent in the town, the subject of rabies has soon been dropped the inhabitants have long been unnerved by Sierva’s almost animalistic ferocity and now maintain that she has been possessed since the incident with the dog. Her father vehemently opposes these heathen rituals he does not wish his daughter to adhere to the customs of the slaves. In celebration of Sierva’s twelfth birthday, Dominga performs a voodoo ritual on her and gives her a necklace to wear depicting Oshun, the god of love and beauty. During an eclipse of the sun, Sierva María is bitten by an apparently rabid dog at the slave market in Cartagena de Indias, but seems to be barely injured and certainly not infected. She is brought up by the black housekeeper Dominga who also teaches her the Yoruba language of the slaves and introduces her to the world of voodoo. Sierva María, daughter of the Marquis Don Ygnacio, grows up without a mother. ![]()
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