[escepticos] El león, el conquistador y los republicanos

["Jorge Javier Frías Perles" <jjfrias@...>]

Ojeando las noticias de Barry Karr (CSICOP) me encuentro con este 
sorprendente titular del que no tenía noticia. Parece que el leoncito 
encantado es a veces la cabalgadura de Hernán Cortés y otras el alma de los 
republicanos caídos en la Guerra Civil.

Lo que nó sé es de qué va la web de ananova y la "solvencia informativa" que 
tiene, aunque visto los últimos titulares de EFE, cualquier cosa vale...

Seguimos atentos, porque esto promete...

Saludos encantados

Jorge J. Frías
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http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_287554.html

Ananova :



'Haunted' wooden lion scaring Spaniards

The residents of a southern Spanish town fear a blue and yellow wooden lion 
in a children's play area is haunted.

One theory doing the rounds in Tomares, near Seville, is that the 
spring-mounted lion, for children to ride like a rocking horse, is instead 
being ridden by the spirit of conquistador Hernan Cortes who is buried in a 
nearby town.

Rumours have been triggered by the lion's tendency to rock back and forth 
long after the rider has dismounted. Officials believe a nearby motorway is 
generating gusts of air which make the lion rock.

For several weeks, people in the town and from other communities have been 
gathering at Diamantino Plaza to watch the wooden lion, one of several 
attractions in a new park that has yet to open. Children have apparently 
been sneaking under a fence to ride it.

Another theory for the mysterious rocking is that the lion is haunted by the 
souls of Republicans shot by fascist forces around Tomares during the 
Spanish Civil War.

Town hall environmental chief Cristina Perez said: "It's a snowball effect. 
Everyone says what they think it is and in the end, everything is true."

Claims that the mayor of Tomares is going to hire a medium to exorcise the 
lioness have been categorically denied.


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