ABSTRACT

So they all thought of a signal, and they agreed that whoever entered was to signal the others by hitting a nail into the wall of the tower. The boy agreed and was given a large nail to hit into the wall as proof. So he said goodbye and went to the tower. Once he was there, he summoned his courage, climbed the stairs, and went inside the tower. It was late, and he was scared to be inside the tower. Before the boy went to hit the nail into the wall, he looked all around him to see if someone had come to take his life. The shadows of the night had already begun to darken his imagination, but he didn’t want to leave without doing anything because that would have caused him to lose the bet and the money. He was eager to get the job done and get out of there as fast as he could. So he took the nail with his left hand and picked up a rock to hit the nail with his right. Then he placed the nail on the spot where he was going to hit it, but as he vigorously knocked the nail into the wall, he caught the tip of his coat without realizing it and became attached to the wall. After he finished, it seemed that one hundred years had passed, but imagine how frightened he became when he felt his coat caught by something! He immediately thought that the ghosts were holding the coat so that he would not be able to get away and they would kill him. He lost all his courage and dropped down dead out of fright right on that spot.