Oh yes, we have to apologize! The blog goes on slowly, but ignoring this fact, the visits continue to rise, to the point of having to replace the counter because now he ricomiciato from head to count! At the bottom of page you can find the new one, with a number to make your head spin!
But let's get a little more serious. The online survey in which we ask you what you think argomenti avremmo dovuto trattare di più, dopo l'immortale UFOLOGIA, già ampliamente trattata, come la seconda classificata MASSONERIA, abbiamo deciso di dare spazio alle LEGGENDE, sempre interessanti e che creano curiosità in chiunque le senta raccontare. 
Chi di noi, nella vita, magari seduto ad un tavolo con amici o conoscenti, non ha mai parlato o sentito parlare di leggende? Chi abita in periferia o addirittura in campagna, mi ha sicuramente capito, I luoghi misteriosi al bordo della città sono sicuramente maggiori in numero a quelli che si possono trovare nelle città stesse. In queste ambientazioni, frutto di tradizioni e credenze, al centro dei racconti leggendari, c'è spesso la figura del Diavolo. In questa storia che vi vado a raccontare, tratta dal sito " http://www.misterieleggende.com/ " è proprio lui il protagonista, il caprone con gli zoccoli e le corna!
L'inverno del 1885 fu eccezionalmente severo per il sudovest dell'Inghilterra, regione solitamente visitata da climi niente affatto rigidi. La mattina dell'8 febbraio, il signor Albert Brailsford, preside della scuola di un paesino nel Devon, si avvicinò alla finestra del salotto per vedere se nella notte era nevicato. Di colpo, la sua attenzione era stata attratta da una linea di impronte, o meglio, orme caprine che si sviluppavano lungo la strada che conduceva al villaggio. A prima vista si sarebbero dette normal impression of a horse shod, but rather to observe it was obvious that he could not be, since they were perfectly arranged along a single line perfectly straight, as if the feet of animals were placed facing each other. Were a horse should have one leg on which to bounce. If the mysterious creature had two legs, proceeded with great care, as an acrobat on a tightrope. But what was even more curious was that the footprints, no longer than 10 cm, were close to each other only 16 cm. Finally, were razor sharp, as if they were obtained by dipping into the snow a silhouette of heated iron. Curiosity prevailed and the people followed the tracks until the end of the course, he was going to finish against a brick wall. But the surprises were not over. Fingerprints in fact resumed just beyond the wall, but without the blanket of snow accumulated on top of the wall results in some way violated. Then the marks achieved a sheaf of wheat, to find themselves further, without, again, you notice the passage of some heavy body. It still was not enough. Passed under a rose bush thorn and above some roofs.
short, it was as if some joker juggler had enjoyed during the night to build a headache for the poor villagers. The hypothesis of a playful, however, was immediately discarded. The footprints seemed never end. It was found more in several kilometers from the outskirts of town, along the Devon countryside. Issue seems to be messy and erratic going to touch on a few other small towns and villages. If it really was a clown acrobat, he must have had a good hard work to cover more than 50 km in the cold of night and amid the snow and high. Moreover he must have a certain haste, since the footprints stopped often on the edge of the door, only to reverse direction and head back further. At one point, had crossed the estuary of the River Exe. However, beyond, that is, in Exmouth, it is not met most, as if the enigmatic he returned on his steps. Of course, everything in that route, there was no logic, it was like a path at random. At certain points, the footprints of "horse" 'had a slit in the middle, suggesting a broken socket. We are in the Victorian era and none of the farmers in those places doubted the existence of the devil. At this thought someone had shouldered a shotgun and he began to hunt. The night they closed all the doors of the house thoroughly, taking their rifles at hand, next to the bed. It took a week before the news was reported by newspapers. The first was to tell the London Times February 16, 1855, adding that many farmers were finding the misteriose tracce nei cortili delle loro case. Il giorno dopo era toccato alla «Plymouth Gazette», la quale riportava l'idea di un prete che suggeriva trattarsi di un canguro, dimenticando che il canguro ha zampe artigliate. Ipotesi contestata e contrastata da quella, certamente più plausibile, presentata sul «Flying Post» che indicava in un uccello la probabile causa del misterioso percorso di orme. Teoria immediatamente smontata da un altro articolo comparso su «Illustrated London News» in cui si faceva osservare che non esiste al mondo alcun uccello munito di zoccoli ferrati! In aggiunta, l'articolista segnalava che, pur avendo trascorso oltre cinque mesi nelle distese innevate del Canada, non gli era mai capitato di osservare impronte similar. On March 3, on the 'Illustrated London News', the great naturalist and anatomist Richard Owen ruled that the scientific analysis of fingerprints spoke in favor of a rate. That night, of course, some rates were awakened from its winter sleep and had gone out of their holes in search of food. Plausible hypothesis, pity that Owen did not explain why all those extravagant rates had decided to go hunting hopping on one leg. Another witness, a doctor, revealed along with a colleague: "to have committed many hours in deepening the study of the intrinsic peculiarities of the particular fingerprint" (in Victorian times it felt a certain satisfaction in using language which pompous as to not get to say anything). He declared that "as a result of detailed comments had been possible to emphasize that the imprint of the mysterious base consisted of fingers and plant certainly attributable to some animal", in this case it was an otter. Yet another reporter, who signed with the pseudonym "Ornither, said it was certainly the footprints left behind by un'otarda, since the outer toes were rounded. Another gentleman in Sudbury recently declared that in his area had noticed some big rats running around in potato fields. The footprints left by the big mice were similar to those mysterious, the newspapers already dubbed "the devil's footprints."
rats, hopping through the snow and landed every jump on the whole body had left those signs, coincidentally similar to the hoof prints of animals. A correspondent talked of Scottish hare or skunk, wandering around looking for food. The extravagance and differences of all these explanations, so stralunale and absurd, was justified by the objective difficulty of finding an answer to the mystery. The less understandable question - one that defies any case, was in a unique arrangement of the fingerprint, all in a row 'other along a straight line, as if they were left by an animal with only one leg. Not to mention, then, la complicazione aggiuntiva di capire come lo strano essere avesse potuto percorrere in quelle condizioni, al freddo e di notte, oltre 50 km. Forse l'ipotesi più plausibile venne proposta da Geoffrey Household, il quale nel 1985 ha pubblicato un libro in cui sono raccolte tutte le testimonianze legate a questo caso misterioso. Ecco la possibile, logica, spiegazione dei fatti: “sono propenso a ritenere che quella notte dal centro del porto militare di Devonport si sia innalzato, forse a seguito di qualche disguido, un pallone sonda. Libero dagli ormeggi, ha potuto sorvolare la zona senza alcun controllo. Dall'oggetto pendevano due sacchetti appesi a delle funi. Sono stati questi pesi a lasciare le impronte e questo spiega anche come mai ne sono state trovate pure sui tetti delle case... Il maggiore Carter, un uomo del posto, mi ha detto che il nonno all'epoca lavorava proprio alla base di Devonport e che una volta gli aveva raccontato del pallone, la cui "fuga" accidentale aveva provocato danni a giardini, serre, fienili, finestre un po' ovunque nella zona. Alla fine aveva terminato il viaggio precipitando nei pressi di Honiton.”
Si tratta senz'altro di un'informazione importante che potrebbe spiegare la dinamica di ciò che successe. Ma, pur dandola per buona, c'è almeno ancora un dettaglio che non quadra. Se si da un'occhiata su una cartina geografica alla serie di impronte, si nota immediatamente che fanno ampi, indecifrabili giri fra i centri di Topsham e Exmouth. A balloon would have "behaved" in a manner so disorderly? He would, however, followed a path along a straight line in the direction of the prevailing wind, that night, incidentally, was blowing from the east? The problem was, as stated above, the serious delay in the mass media took an interest in the problem. In the meantime, in fact, most of the important factors of the case had already been altered. For example, it would be interesting to know if the snow was falling that night was the first snow of that February of 1885. That year the winter was particularly harsh and it is possible that many children get sick as rats, rabbits and badgers had to leave prematurely stopped hibernating their holes in search of food. A letter to the newspaper Plymouth Gazette dated February 17 begins with these words: "The night of Thursday, February 8 has been characterized by intense snowfall, which was followed by rain and strong wind from the east, and a hard frost in the morning. " Of course, the night around the area there were many small animals to hunt for food. But only on Friday morning, new and fresh coat of snow was possible to observe the fingerprints. These, after all, could be off by rain that had dug in the snowpack further to solidify the strong frost in the morning. This, for example, would explain well the impression that many observers ebbero di impronte come "impresse a viva forza" nella neve. Però se il terreno era già ricoperto di neve prima della notte dell' 8 febbraio, ecco che allora pure questa plausibile teoria deve essere abbandonata. Quand'anche la si desse per valida, non si comprende come mai alcune impronte siano state ritrovate sulla sommità dei muri, sui covoni, sui tetti... Insomma, un bel rebus. Un mistero che, dopo tanti anni, continua a restare insoluto.
0 comments:
Post a Comment