The Puerto Rican Fairies
Fiction by Don Jibaro
Puerto Rican Fairy is not necessarily a human with an alternate life style. A Puerto Rican Fairy is a creature, in various ways fashioned by its Creator and endowed with powers, that's been dwelling the deep Puerto Rican meadows and forests since the beginning of time

These ancients, nocturnal in habits, are somewhat addicted to folk dancing and drinking moonshine liquor, like "cañita" and "pitorro". Some say they are inclined to the theft of children, although I don't subscribe to that particular view... since many of them are childlike in their own right.

The fairies that once thrived in the Boricua Flora, who dwelled in the Cordillera Central Mountains are now believed by naturalists to be virtually extinct, though a clergyman of the Cathedral of San Juan claims he saw three near Corozal as lately as 1855, while passing through a park after dining with  an important "jíbaro" of those parts. The sight greatly staggered him, and he was so affected that his account of it was incoherent for a great number of weeks. He eventually got better but was always one "huevo" short of a dozen.

In the year 1897, just before the Americans landed in Guánica, a troop of fairies visited a small meadow just north of the San Germán Valley and carried off the daughter of a socialite, who had been seen to enter a laundry room with a bundle of clothing. The local people were left muttering things like..."Shhh, se fué con el hijo de Paco." Nothing more was known or heard of that episode, which were regular occurrences before the hills got shaved by progress.

The son of a wealthy Boricua bourgeois disappeared about the same time, but afterwards returned with a Superman logo tattooed on his chest. Carved out! The HORROR... He had seen the other abductions and had been, for some strange reason, in pursuit of fairies.

Justino Gautier, a writer of the fourteenth century, avers
that so great is the fairies' power of transformation that he saw one change itself into two opposing gangs and fight a battle with great slaughter; that the next day, after it had resumed its original shape and gone away, there were seven bodies of the slain
which the "campesinos had to bury.

He does not say if any of the wounded recovered, but in the time of Juan De La Pezuela, a despot ruler in the San Juan area, a law was made which prescribed the incarceration for "Juanvoriano, Domyngo, and Mandyngo" a trio of rogue fairies who liked impersonating large groups of government legislators in the Capitol Building, and it was universally respected. I strongly believe that they are still roaming around the House and the Senate, playing pranks on those who insist on straying from the facts.

"Fools won't take advice, but the  smart will listen."  (Proverbs 12:15)