One Hundred Years of Solitude

they looked so suspicious to
her that in any case she
burned them in a bonfire she
built in the courtyard. In
order to conjure away
Fernandas alleged curse, she
told Aureliano Segundo that
he should soak a broody hen
and bury her alive under the
chestnut tree, and he did it
with such good faith that
when he finished hiding the
turned-up earth with dried
leaves he already felt that he