El Hombre Caimán
El Hombre Caimán is a legend of the Caribbean region of Colombia. It takes place in the town of Plato.
Plot
A man, happy and carefree, constantly traveling from Pinillos to Magangué selling all sorts of food and beautiful fruits. Loudly and amid the romp between him and the people around here, this man amused everyone with his absurd stories of how they acquired the products, to the point of convincing buyers that what they took were wonderful objects.
One afternoon, while announcing loudly selling some oranges which, according to him, had the essence of eternal love, discovered to his fortune the presence of a beautiful mulatta with freshly rinsed hair carefree walking. The man struck up a conversation with the girl and quickly, both were deeply attracted.
Her name was Roque Lina and was the daughter of a stern and unapproachable rice trader. Her brothers, who played the secret role of watchers, realizing that Roque Lina was increasingly attracted by the pompous phrases of the man, alerted their father.
So when the man appeared as usual with their shrieks and products from another world and rushed to greet happy Roque Lina with his beloved songs, he found himself facing the unkindly presence of the girl's father. "Here I am selling," he said flatly to her father. "And my daughter is not rice. So you can go with your music elsewhere, before we have problems. Or I do not know! ". And without adding another word, he took Roque Lina's arm and dragged her with him.
It was from that moment when the man began to go every day to a shop, to ask the same rum, the same cheese and the same rice with coconut and look toward the river. Here men bathe in this shore. Towards the middle of the stream there is a whirlpool and across women bathe. Also, here people will need in the water and a penny is charged for all. The man had colluded with Roque Lina so that when she went to bathe, he went through the river swimming to visit her.
The man finished eating the rice, he got into the water and slowly, his body was corrugating, his arms shrank in small legs, legs joined in a busy queue and each of the grains of rice that had they were eaten transforming into a row of teeth, until they become a swimmer alligator.[1]