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The Legend of the Broken Stone Weir on the Katian River

By day she sews clothes. By night, shrouds — and they are never wrong.

26 episodes · Complete · Folklore

Azumira, a widow from rural Brazil, sewed everyday garments by day and burial shrouds by night. Her shrouds always accurately foretold the deaths that would happen the following day. On a stormy night, a mysterious voice compelled her to stitch a new shroud, and she found her own name embroidered on the fabric, foreshadowing her own demise. Burning, cutting and burying it were all in vain. A countdown appeared on the cloth: “Three nights remain.” A folk healer informed her that this was an unbreakable curse left by a former seamstress who had defied fate. Following the clues on the shroud that led to the cemetery, they returned the shroud to the source of the curse, and Azumira’s curse was lifted. Yet local elders said the sound of a sewing machine could still be heard coming from the graveyard at midnight.