"Bring me the blood of a child to drink"

La Vanguardia publishes every Wednesday of the month of August and on the first of September some of the best episodes of Dossier Negro that were delivered in parts in their complete format.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
29 August 2023 Tuesday 10:27
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"Bring me the blood of a child to drink"

La Vanguardia publishes every Wednesday of the month of August and on the first of September some of the best episodes of Dossier Negro that were delivered in parts in their complete format. The reader will thus enjoy the narration of each case as a whole and without interruptions.

Until the Spanish Civil War, it was common to see long lines of consumptives, anemics and tuberculosis patients in front of slaughterhouses to fill their bowls with the blood of slaughtered animals, convinced that drinking it would cure them of their ills. That same baseless fraud caused wealthy patients to hire hitmen to supply them with child's blood, much more "effective", according to their beliefs. They were vampires, blood drinkers who sought to extend their lives... in exchange for another life.

All the rivers of passion flow into the black chronicle: desire, greed, jealousy, anger, hate, love, greed, ambition... There are no stories only of good and bad. There are stories full of nuances, half-truths, strengths and weaknesses, innocence and cruelty.

Dossier Negro is a biweekly black chronicle podcast. You can also find its chapters on podcast platforms such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Google Podcasts, among others.