Story

Once upon a time, there was a poor woman who had lost her hope to live. Her father had died, and her mother went crazy because of that. Her siblings were just children who needed help eating, drinking, and dressing.
As a result of her desperation, she decided to hang herself. So, she tied a rope over the roof and made a knot. At the moment when she put her head through the rope, she felt a cold wind. When she looked behind her, she saw a skeleton with a big candle on its hand. It was the death spirit who came to show her that it was not her time to die. The spirit taught her an incantation that would allow her to see the others death spirits and also gave her some plants and seeds to prepare an infusion that would allow any person to recover their health. But, there was one only condition. If the death spirit was at the head of any patient, that patient should die, and she must not try to save his or her.
As the spirit recommended, she became a physician who had a good reputation for having cured many patients and became wealthy. That allowed her to solve all of the economic problems she'd had.

One day, she was called by a poor family who had one of its members at the point to die. The patient was one of the most handsome boys that she had ever seen. At the moment she said the incantation, she saw the death spirit at the head of that young man. She felt so bad. Because she did not want, he died

That´s why she decided to make a trap for the death spirit and put beside the bed where the boy was -- in order to cheat the spirit. But, the spirit then realized and took the life of the woman instead of the young man.

That boy lived until his old age