Be Careful What You Wish For

"Mirror, mirror

show to me

her whose lover

I will be..."

An incantation, if said in front of a mirror on the eve of may, which would show you the one you will marry or maybe the devil himself.

It was the year 1847, there were no devils anymore.

Agueda wasn’t afraid.

Badoy wasn’t either-but he's not so sober.

It was tradition versus modernity.

Now, it's the year 2012, there are still no devils anymore...
Maybe there are, maybe there aren't.

I fell in love with the story and I find it very scary yet enkindling.
To learn more about the Nick Joaquin's May Day Eve read it first...

Thanks to my Philippine contemporary literature professor (Prof. Wilna Bantay) for encouraging us to appreciate a Filipino writer's masterpiece.