Podcast Summary: EXTRA ANORMAL

Episode: Nunca Pactes Con Un DUENDE | RELATOS Macabros De BRUJERÍA Con Duendes
Date: January 16, 2026
Host: Paco Arias (iEX Studios)
Invited Guest: María Melanie (aka Melly Von Corpi) – Bruja, tarotista, y fanática del ocultismo
Podcast Language: Spanish

Overview:

This episode of EXTRA ANORMAL dives deep into the chilling intersections between witchcraft (brujería) and the enigmatic world of duendes (goblins), aluxes, trolls, and similar beings. Through firsthand experiences, folkloric analysis, and multiple listener-submitted stories, Paco and Meli discuss how these elemental spirits can be invoked for purposes of abundance or vengeance, always at a price. The episode warns listeners about the consequences of making pacts with such entities, sharing stories where fortunes turn tragic and cautioning about “playing with fire” in the supernatural realm.

Key Discussion Points and Stories

1. What Are Duendes? Their Nature and Their Role in Witchcraft

• [04:00]
  • Meli: “Los duendes... son seres místicos, muy poderosos, pero sobre todo seres neutrales. Los podemos llevar al bien como al mal y cuando prueban el mal, les encanta, entonces se van muy al mal.”
• Duendes/aluxes are not just mischief-makers of legend; they possess real power and willfulness.
• Their neutrality means they can serve for good (prosperity, care) or ill (damage, curses), but indulging their darker side empowers them further.

2. Story 1: “Debajo del Fogón” – Prosperity, Loss, and the Price of a Pact

• [06:00-17:44]
  • Paco narrates: A grandson recalls the inexplicable prosperity of his grandmother, whose rural home was blessed with fertility and fortune. After her death, all prosperity vanishes, and the land becomes “cursed”.
  • Discovery: Under the outdoor stove, a sealed concrete box holds gold, dolls, old sweets, and a secret note:
    • “Gracias mis niños por hacerme una mujer próspera. El día que yo los olvide, llévense todo lo que me han dado.”
• Melanie’s insight:
  • “Los duendes siempre dan, pero reciben... En el momento en que no hay quien los atienda y ellos sin atención van a reclamar todo lo que dan.” [17:59]

3. Story 2: “El Troll del Mercado de Sonora” – Greed and Dire Consequences

• [19:02-26:34]
  • Meli: Attorney desperate for success visits the Mercado de Sonora. Receives a troll “trabajado con mal” (filled with graveyard dirt, bones, human remains).
  • Explicit warnings: Never feed after midnight, avoid sunlight, never give blood. Success explodes, but greed leads the man to break rules—he feeds the troll his own blood.
  • After that: He’s mauled nightly, loses everything, spirals to suicide.
  • Patterns: Abandonment of the place, reports by neighbors of a small shadowy being, “la sombra de algo chiquitito.”

4. Duendes’ Laughter and Manifestations

• [26:34-31:32]
  • Meli: “La risa de un duende... es muy aguda, chiquita. Siempre la relaciono con las risas de las brujas de Disney, así pero chiquitito.” [26:52]
  • Paco shares about sightings near mango and avocado trees, confirming the association of duendes with certain flora and their Congregational laughter, “como las voces de ardillitas, pero humanas.”

5. Story 3: “El Regalo de la Suegra” – Witchcraft to Harm a Child

• [31:32-44:20]
  • Paco shares a harrowing story from Aldo Hernández: After years trying for a baby, he finally has a son, only for his mother-in-law (hostile to Aldo) to gift a “duende” doll. The baby bonds to it, but soon grows unwell, exhibiting redness, insomnia, weight loss.
  • A horrifying dream reveals the duende draining the baby’s life at night. The baby dies in tragic circumstances. Upon inspection, the duende doll contains dirt, nails, powder, roots—ingredients for a brujería curse.
  • Quote from Melanie:
    • “Lamentablemente hay gente muy mala y siempre se van hacia los menores... es algo que pasa y pasa mucho.” [44:20]

6. Story 4: “La Herencia y los Aluxes” – Betrayal, Family Feuds, Fatal Results

• [45:02-53:22]
  • Meli’s personal family story: After a land inheritance squabble, a cunning uncle “gifts” protective aluxes—really using magic to harm. The new residents waste away, plagued by laughter, shadows, and eventually two deaths.
  • Meli: “Cuando están enterrados de este modo es o los matamos o nos matan.” [52:17]

7. Story 5: “Los Duendes de la Repisa” – Gratitude, Prosperity, and Retribution

• [53:22-63:57]
  • Paco tells of Raúl Montoya in Sonora, who works for a prosperous boutique owner, Doña Celia, whose secret is two duendes kept in a special altar.
  • After Doña Celia dies, her disrespectful son throws the duendes away and soon dies in a violent accident. Raúl recovers the duendes and credits his own prosperity to honoring them.
  • Raúl: “Ellos dan, pero ellos también te pueden quitar.”

8. Story 6: “Mukis de Minas” – Deadly Pacts and Unintended Victims

• [64:25-69:44]
  • Meli: A mine owner seeks a pact with a muki to find silver, offering items belonging to a worker. Accidentally, his own ring falls with the worker’s shirt. The worker vanishes, later vast silver is found, and the owner strikes it rich.
  • At home, he’s haunted by his worker’s voice from inside the walls—eventually, he vanishes, with only rags and claw marks by a hole in the ground remaining.
  • Meli: “Si los tratas mal, ellos te tratan peor.” [63:48]

9. Analysis and Final Takeaways

• Pacts with duendes (or similar) can bring sudden prosperity, protection, and favor—but inevitably require reciprocation, attention, or sometimes a steep (even deadly) toll.
• Duendes serve as both benevolent allies and as instruments of vengeance/death, entirely reflective of the human intention behind their invocation.
• Paco: “Mucho cuidado con lo que pides, no te vaya a pasar lo de este minero...” [71:41]

Noteworthy Quotes & Timestamps

• “Los duendes... cuando va el mal, se alimenta y cuando se alimenta y se empodera ya no hay nada que lo pare.” — Melanie [05:12]
• “El día que yo los olvide, llévense todo lo que me han dado.” — Nota de la abuela, Story 1 [15:42]
• “Nunca le vayas a dar sangre… menos de la tuya.” — Bruja del Mercado de Sonora [21:03]
• “La risa de un duende es como la de las brujas de Disney, pero muy chiquitito.” — Melanie [26:52]
• “Al duende lo usan de recipiente, directamente para hacer el trabajo de brujería.” — Melanie [45:02]
• “Cuando están enterrados de este modo (aluxes) es o los matamos o nos matan.” — Melanie [52:17]
• “Ellos dan, pero ellos también te pueden quitar.” — Raúl Montoya [63:37]
• “Si los tratas mal, ellos te tratan peor.” — Melanie [63:48]
• “Mucho cuidado con lo que pides, existe un karma y todo lo que hacemos se puede regresar.” — Paco [71:41]

Timestamps for Main Segments

• [02:19] – Presentación de la invitada (María Melanie)
• [04:00] – Concepto y ética de los duendes en brujería
• [06:00] – Historia: “Debajo del Fogón”
• [19:02] – Historia: “El Troll del Mercado de Sonora”
• [26:52] – Descripción de la risa de los duendes
• [31:32] – Historia: “El Regalo de la Suegra”
• [45:02] – Historia: “Herencia y los Aluxes”
• [53:22] – Historia: “Los Duendes de la Repisa”
• [64:25] – Historia: “Mukis de Minas”
• [71:37] – Reflexiones y despedida

Memorable Moments

• The chilling reveal of the grandmother’s pact, showing the transactional nature of her relationship with “her niños”—the duendes.
• The market story of a lawyer, whose ambition reverses his fortune when he offers his blood to a troll.
• The heart-wrenching tragedy of Aldo’s son, blending family conflict, brujería, and the sinister use of duendes as instruments of harm.
• The infighting over inheritance, showing how familial betrayal can become supernatural warfare—with fatal consequences.
• Firsthand, practical advice on NOT undertaking duende pacts lightly, or disrespecting established supernatural entities.

Final Thoughts

The episode makes it vividly clear: duendes, aluxes, trolls, and mine spirits are not mere folklore—they are forces that, when invoked, will demand balance. Whomever seeks their favor must be prepared to pay their price, whether in fortune or in pain, and always with respect. Both hosts urge listeners to exercise extreme caution in matters of the occult: “Mucho cuidado con lo que pides... porque todo lo que hacemos se puede regresar.”

For more stories and forbidden tales, visit the official podcast site at extranormal.com.mx