San Juan Romero - Citizendia

"San Juan Romero" is a short story by the Brazilian writer, Rita Maria Felix da Silva. |utc_offset = -2 to -4 |time_zone_DST = BRST |utc_offset_DST = -2 to -5 |cctld It is also the name of the fictional Mexican village the story features and was the first story to feature the recurring character, "Sir James Winterwood". The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. James Winterwood is a fictional English traveller adventurer and writer of second half of the XIX century and a recurring character of the Brazilian writer Rita Maria Felix da Silva In the tale, Winterwood arrives in San Juan Romero after his adventures throughout North America. Soon he learns about the terrible curse that haunted the village, concerning a nasty secret involving the people of that village, originally a group of miners. A curse (also called execration) is any manner of Adversity thought to be inflicted by any supernatural power (such as a spell, a Prayer, an Mining is the extraction of valuable Minerals or other geological materials from the earth usually (but not always from an Ore body Since this tale deals with the evil in the human being's heart, it has been termed a "metaphysical western". Evil, in many cultures is used to describe acts or thoughts which are contrary to some particular religion Metaphysics is the branch of Philosophy investigating principles of reality transcending those of any particular science The Western is a fiction Genre seen in Film, Television, Radio, Literature, Painting and other Visual arts. Another curious feature of this story is a mention of one member of the literary version of the Whitehill family. Whitehill is a Family surname appearing both in Literature and in historical references

Readers of the story have varyingly placed the village either near the Mexican frontier with the United States, or farther south towards Central America. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the

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