Under the advice of the local bishop, Sierva is imprisoned in the Santa Clara Convent, where she awaits her exorcism. Though she doesn't contact rabies, she begins to act strangely.Sierva becomes believed to be possessed by a demon. The first chapter begins shortly after a rabid dog bites Sierva on her twelfth birthday. Márquez bases Sierva's character on the corpse of a girl with hair 'twenty-two meters' (4) long, and a legend his grandmother told him about a girl with similar hair who performed miracles on the Caribbean coast. When Sierva was born with her umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, Dominga promised the girl's hair to the saints in exchange for her life, and so, it has never been cut.

She learns three African languages, how to sing and dance, and is both baptized and consecrated to Yoruban deities by Dominga de Adviento. Sierva spends most of her time in the slave quarters, where she feels welcomed.

The only daughter of the American-born Marquis de Casalduero, Sierva lives with her father the Marquis, and her mother, Bernarda, in a decaying mansion.Neither parent takes an interest in their daughter, so she's raised by Dominga de Adviento, the household's head slave woman. Set in the seaport city of Santa María de Antigua, in colonial Spanish Colombia, at the end of the 18th century, Gabriel García Márquez'snovel Of Love and Other Demons tells the tragic story of Sierva María de Todos Los Ángeles.

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