title: When the Century Blooms
author: Wetherell, June
description: A Legend for the Superstitious or a Horrible Reality?
  
  From the moment Penny Oliver set foot on the island of Pollino she'd heard the native stories about strange happenings on a mountain top. According to the natives, worshippers of Satan -- they called them “Puros” -- had assembled on the mountain on years past and performed the gruesome rituals of human sacrifice. But the Puros had left the island long ago -- never again to return to their meeting place on the mountain. Or had they?
  
  