THE BULL OF SAINT TORCUATO

Carlos Romero Velasco

Jesús Romero Cobo

Javier Olmos Romero

A man lived in the Masmas farmhouse, who had a large flock of bulls. One day he missed the best of his bulls, he went looking for him everywhere without finding him, until after a few hours he saw him return by himself. He didn't give it more importance. 

The next day, again, he observed that the bull was missing, also, after a few hours he saw how it returned, so he decided to observe the behaviour of the animal. He verified how for several days the bull escaped at the same time and after a few hours of absence he returned to the farmhouse again. - “You have to see, every day the bull leaves !, I'm going to put a chain on it and that way it doesn't escape me anymore!”

Having the bull chained, the man stopped paying attention to it, and went back to his daily chores. Carefree, as he passed close by where he had it tied, he saw how the chain detached itself, without any sudden movement on the part of the animal. Astonished, he saw how the bull began to move away from the farmhouse, "where will he go? Again at the same time! I'm going to follow him!"

He started walking after the animal but after following it for a long journey, the bull came to a place where there was a large hole; he watched as it began to dig into him.

As he approached, he saw the remains of a human being that had been buried there, and identified by the clothing that it could be someone linked to the church.

THIS LEGEND IS BASED ON THE FACT THAT ALHAMBRA LOOKS LIKE A HUGE SUNDIAL, THIS IS UNDESTOOD AS THEM PASSING OF THE HOURS OF THE DAY ACCORDING TO SUNLIGHT.

Iria Saavedra, Inma Morillas and Carmen García

3ºB

"EL SUSPIRO DEL MORO"

Daniel Cortés Castro

Gabriel Ruano Hernández

Legend has it that after handing over the keys to the Alhambra to the Catholic Monarchs, the sultan of Granada Boabdil headed with his family and vassals towards the lordship of the Alpujarras that had been given to him so that he could live there as his vassal and control that inhospitable and wild part of the Sierra Nevada.                                                      

The former Sultan Boabdil led a large retinue of relatives, servants and vassals who - with all their belongings and some coffins with the remains of their ancestors - were to accompany him in his life in exile.

Then she began to cry inconsolably. His mother, Sultana Aixa, who was the one who conspired to bring him to power, cruelly snapped at her son: "The reason is that you cry like a woman, because you didn't know how to defend your kingdom like a man."

    But when he reached the last height from which he could see the Alhambra - a site located in the current town of Otura and which is known as “El Suspiro del Moro” - he could not resist the temptation and turned to look at it.

Thus Boabdil and his family retired to live in theThen she began to cry inconsolably. His mother, Sultana Aixa, who was the one who conspired to bring him to power, cruelly snapped at her son: "The reason is that you cry like a woman, because you didn't know how to defend your kingdom like a man."

So Boabdil and his family retired to live  in his manor of Laujar de Andarax, in the Alpujarras of Almeria.

He wasn't be able to achieve the peace he longed for. His wife, Sultana Moraima fell ill and died of grief. A year after the conquest of Granada, he sold the lordship to the Catholic Monarchs for 21,000 Castilian golden coins. He went to the cemetery where the remains of his ancestors lay and dug them up again to take them with him. Then he sailed to Morocco with one thousand of his supporters. From then, on he lived in Fez. He died, some time later, fighting in favor of the Sultan of Morocco. And this is the story of the Moor's sigh.

THE QUEEN OF THE WATER

Lucía Espínola García

Nayara Huertas Sánchez

Ariadna García Romero

One day, many years ago, even centuries ago, a young woman come to Purullena, to our town, dressed in a beautiful dress and her hair tied up (as the ladies used to dress). She was so elegant walking trough the town, she was thirsty and repellent , she met a young boy, with a very nice beard. She asked him for a glass of water, when she drank it she said: this water is pure and full. 

From that moment they decided for put on to the town "Purullena" since it had no name. They did the school and when they did not know a name, they named it "Colegio Reina Isabel" in honor of the queen, since she named the town.

        LEGEND OF THE GHOSTS

NAIARA ARAUJO,  3ºA

CRISTINA CASTILLO, 3ºA

JORGE LÓPEZ, 3ºA

The ghosts are very common in Darro.

In Easter,the people do penance.They leave on night.They wear a white dress to go to the church to pray first.Later they go to the graveyard.They go to visit the people who have been killed and then , they get out on the street . If they see that people are looking at them or talking about them they come out behind them.Sometimes they can hurt them.THOSE 

The dragon of Purullena.

Javier Casas Martínez 3ºA

Ismael Montes Hernández 3ºA

The legend says that next to a village, there is

a strange forest that no one dared to venture, for a legend. One day, a group of children from the village  Purullena, were playing in the forest, and still nothing is known about the children. But after the disappearance of the children, a villager saw the way of a huge lizard with wings. Running to the village to alarm that there was a strange monster there, the village panicked and the leader decided to go to the forest to kill the beast, but a noise was heard that terrified them and made them run away. Since then no one has gone near the forest.

THE HEADLESS WOMAN

PAULA SÁNCHEZ BONILLA

FÁTIMA TRAVÉ RODRÍGUEZ

3ºA

The legend tells it that a few years ago in a hidden village in Granada called Diezma, although it looked like a quiet village, in it unusual phenomena normally and much more happened when the full moon appeared between that immensity of black color in which there was not even a single star, the crickets were heard, the walking of the animals between the dry leaves that fell from the trees in the autumn. And among all these events, two children were seen in the distance on their way to the old washhouses of the town, carrying in their hands a few trinkets to go hang out in that place... Shortly after the boys arrived at their destination, they began to hear strange noises inside the old washhouses, they were closed with a very old padlock.

Suddenly the old door was opened with a grand slam and the old padlock fell down so that at the moment of crashing into the ground, it broke into a thousand pieces, the children frightened by what had happened, decided to look into the crack of the door that was left open, they lit the lantern of the mobile to see the interior of said place and suddenly one of them called Iker was left for a moment without breath when his eyes reached to visualize a strange shadow at the end of that long and dark place, Aitor was stunned by what he had just seen, on the final wall of that dark place appeared a surprising and terrifying silhouette of a woman, but she had something special, SHE HAD NO HEAD.

The children began to run desperately downhill, but before they got to the exit gate, it was too late, the gate was closed quickly, there was no escape, a shout was heard all over the village, AHHHH!!!!!!

The whole town was left in the dark, nothing more was heard from those young people, only the bag was found with trinkets... it is said that the headless woman is wandering the darkest streets of Diezma with their heads in her hands, and you? You can be next.

                     THE ENCHANTED                           SOLDIER 

                                           BEATRIZ TEJADA OLMOS

                                  INMACULADA JIMÉNEZ MARTÍNEZ  ,3ºA

I 

There was in ancient times a student from Salamanca who during the summer was dedicated to travel and, singing to the sound of his guitar, he obtained funds to pay for his studies. Arrived in Granada, and celebrating

the eve of San Juan, he noticed in the presence of a strange soldier dressed in spear and armor. 

Asking him for his identity, the soldier said he

was suffering from an enchantment for 300 years: a Muslim alphabet conjured him to guard the treasure of Boabdil for all eternity, giving him

only a license to leave that hiding place once every 100 years...

The student asked how he could help him. The soldier offered him half of the treasure he guarded if he helped him break the spell: he needed a fasting priest and a young Christian. The young woman was not difficult to find, but the only priest she found was an obese maniac worshiper, so it was very difficult to convince him, and only with the promise of wealth did

she agree to help him.

That night they went up to the hiding place, located in the Alhambra, carrying a basket of food for the parish priest to satisfy his gluttony once the work was finished. Arrived before a tower, the stones on his wall opened at the soldier's command, revealing a room with the formidable loot...

Once inside, and while performing the spell, the hungry priest pounced on the basket and devoured a thick capon. Suddenly student, girl and priest met outside the tower and the sealed entrance ... the spell was broken too soon!

That was how the soldier lost the opportunity to escape such cruel punishment, and the others his dreams of wealth. Although the student weighed his pockets, which allowed him to live in peace and love with the beautiful young Christian.

MARCOS MARTÍNEZ PORCEL

RUBÉN PORCEL RODRÍGUEZ

ZINE EDDINE BOUGRAINI CHRIF

There was once a man who lived in the bejarin.

Had some cave sales deals. He had a little deal with an elderly couple.

His maid lived with them.

The man did not have a very good relationship with the couple.

He had been preparing his tools to threaten the elderly.

They did not want to negotiate, because they knew that this man was dangerous. On the night of December 7, 2007, he took his tools and prepared for the massacre. He took his tools and broke the door of that cave. The very scared old men called the police, but they were late, because the psychopathic man murdered this couple and their maid.

When the police were there, the psychopath was preparing the crime scene. The police arrived and caught the murderer. When he was already in prison, they tortured him in such a way that they tied him to a stick with his hands raised and he could not move, he had to relieve himself until he died. END