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Lingofable

A 2-part Spanish story series

The Hollow Mothers

Las madres huecas

  1. Part 1: What Grandmother Kept

    C1 Spanish · 5 min read · Free

    Inside her dead grandmother's locked chest, an antique restorer finds seven nesting dolls carved with the faces of the women in her family. Six are wood. The seventh is warm.

  2. Part 2: The Debt of the Páramo

    C1 Spanish · 5 min read

    In 1962, a grandmother cheated a spirit out of half a soul and hid the remainder inside seven wooden dolls. Now the outermost keeper is dead, the seal is cracking along a painted face that looks exactly like Adriana's, and something patient is climbing down from the moor to collect.