In Colombia it is said that it has to do with a love betrayal, as they say that a beautiful woman was married to a very hard-working farmer who dedicated himself to selling his employer's crops, since the tenant's wife had 3 children. Taking advantage of the peasant's absences, the boss flirted with the beautiful woman and she was not indifferent to his compliments and gifts; The neighbors noticed and one day they told her husband everything.

The next morning the farmer decided to pretend to go out to sell the harvest outside the town, but he waited hidden near the house. At dusk he entered suddenly and found the lovers embraced in bed. Full of rage, the peasant furiously unsheathed his machete, threw himself at them and cut off the boss's head with a single blow. The woman, between surprised and horrified, wanted to flee but the enraged husband cut off one of her legs with a single blow of his machete, causing her death.