Summary
The film's title isn't just a casual reference to the hellish quality of this work. A cross marks the entrance of the mines, but the miners believe that the benevolence of God cannot reach into the mine's endless catacombs. Instead, deep inside each mine are centuries-old effigies of the devil - El Tio - to whom the miners make gifts and even blood sacrifices, hoping to win his beneficence. Even the local Catholic Church concedes the domain of the mines to the devil.
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The Devil's MinerIF WE THINK of hell as a literal place, we likely conjure up a horrible domain underground:...See the full content of this document
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