The Devil at the Crossroads: A Spanish Colonial Folktale That Teaches Lessons on Faith, Humility, and Resisting Temptation
In the days of Spanish rule, when travelers feared the road after sunset, there was a crossroads few dared to approach once night had fallen. It lay where two dirt paths met beneath an old ceiba tree, its roots twisted deep into the earth. Elders warned that such places belonged neither fully to God nor to man, and that spirits,
