A muleteer of Sakana, Navarra, used to come to Ataun and go from house to house selling salt.
On one particular occasion, on his way home from Ataun, it got late and dark while he was in the forest. And in view of the situation he decided to stop in the Berrenoa countryside, perhaps at a point known as Dantzaleku.
He tied the donkey on one side and he lay down to spend the night on a hill of the field, without any fear of the beasts of the forest.
While there he heard the voices of a group of people speaking and it seemed to him that they were coming to the Berrenoa hill.
The witches arrived immediately, it was a large group, and they started dancing with great noise and frenzy.
A while later Maripetraliñ appeared and took a woman and placed her next to her at a beech tree. And he said to her:
– Do you know that the daughter of king is sick, about to die?
– No – the other replied.
– Do you not know why?
– Why?
– Last Sunday the girl was in Mass and when she received the sacred host she dropped a piece and it fell into a groove of the grave slab below. Now a toad has it in its throat, unable to swallow it. If they took it from the toad, cleaned it in a fountain and gave it to the sick woman to swallow she would heal immediately.
The rooster crowed shortly afterwards and the witches moved away quickly.