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although she is still cold to him. The marquis asks
Delaura to return his daughter to him; first, Delaura consults with Abrenuncio, then, he visits Sierva María, and is ultimately convinced that Sierva María is in fact possessed by a demon. The bishop, for Delaura's disobedience, strips him of his position and sends him to serve in a leper hospital. He continues to visit Sierva María in secret, using a tunnel to access her room; he confesses his love to her. They eat, sleep, and recite poetry together; their relationship grows physical, but is not consummated. Sierva María is at last summoned to be exorcised; her hair is cut off. After the exorcism, another bishop promises to remove her from the convent, but dies before he can do so. Delaura and Sierva María continue to see each other until the tunnel is closed off after Martina successfully manages to escape the convent. Sierva María, tormented by exorcisms, loneliness, and hunger, eventually dies, never finding out where Delaura is. All the same, her hair continues to grow from her dead body.
323:. His obese body represents the influence of the church; he lives in an ancient and decayed palace and suffers from asthma attacks, representing the decay of the church. Penuel argues that Toribio's extra weight represents a Church that has more power than it should; additionally, he argues that Toribio, like the Church, oppresses and destroys, rather than serves, and is spiritually corrupt. Ultimately, the Church, in its effort to exorcise Sierva María of demons, creates the "Other Demons" mentioned in the title.
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of being infected with rabies; nevertheless, Ygnacio subjects her to multiple torturous healing methods in an effort to save her. Ygnacio consults with the bishop, who convinces him that Sierva María is possessed by demons and must be exorcised. She is sent to the convent of Santa Clara, despite still showing no symptoms of rabies, to receive an exorcism, which many people have died from.
169:. Sierva María de Todos Los Angeles is the twelve-year-old daughter of the Marquis Ygnacio and his wife Bernarda. Her hair has never been cut, and was promised to the saints when she was born with the umbilical cord around her neck. She was raised by the slaves, fluent in multiple African languages, and calls herself by the African name "María Mandinga".
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While walking in the city on her birthday, she is bit by a rabid dog. Within a few months, an indigenous woman, Sagunta, warns the
Marquis of an oncoming plague of rabies, and of the possibility that Sierva María may die from it. The doctor Abrenuncio tells Ygnacio that Sierva María is not in danger
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Sierva María is treated cruelly in the convent; her only friend is another prisoner, the nun
Martina Laborde. The priest who is assigned with her exorcism, Father Cayetano Delaura, is kind to her and initially believes she does not need to be exorcised. Delaura falls in love with Sierva Maria,
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Critics view the novel as a criticism of colonialism and of institutions such as the
Catholic church. Gregory Utley argues that the church treats Sierva María as insane because of her links to African culture, and wishes to "cure" her of her African upbringing. Arnold M. Penuel argues that in
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Colombia, the plot follows a 12-year-old girl, bitten by a rabid dog; she is believed to be possessed by demons, and is sent to a convent to be exorcised; the priest who is meant to exorcise her falls in love with her. The book received positive reviews.
158:, and was believed to be a 'miracle-worker'. In this frame-story, it was only after an excavation of tombs that García Márquez is witness to the grave of a similar young girl with 22-meter-hair still attached to the skull, that he was inspired to write
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