"Porto Rican Folklore"

I think this article "Porto Rican Folklore" by Peter J. Hamilton was interesting because I am currently taking a class called Puerto Rican Latio Studies and we talk about the beginning of how America formed and how the spaniards toke over.I like how original the culture is and the text going into detail about what the people of the Puetro Rican culture believed, and it talks about different topics like music, animals and more. 
According to Hamilton, the West Indies have been known to practice witchcraft derived from Africa but, in my Puerto Rican Latio Studies class I learned that the spaniards called the African believe and culture as witchcraft because the spaniards wanted everybody to be Chirstian and forces people to convert or they will be killed. Many converted but secretly they still practiced there own believe and if the spainards were suspicious of them practicing there own believe instead of Christianity then they would pull that person out and say they were practicing witchcraft which is evil and would kill them.