Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

URBAN LEGEND: Romãozinho

 

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In Boa Sorte district, Pedro Afonso, Goiás, Brazil Romãozinho was born to a farmer and his wife. As the boy grew up he was said to be disobedient, cruel, and evil. He was known to get great pleasure from treating animals cruelly and killing plants.

Sometimes Romãozinho's mother would tell the boy to bring his father lunch. His father worked in a garden. One day even though Romãozinho did not want to bring the food to his father he did. On the way, he would eat the chicken and place it back into the lunch box. 

He would hand the lunchbox to Father as he was supposed to. His father was confused when he opened the box and his food was eaten. The father asked the boy what the bones meant. In response Romãozinho did not take responsibility instead he told him that his mother sent it to him that way on purpose. That the bones were the leftovers from his mother and the man who came over when his father wasn't home.  

This enraged his father and caused him to go back home immediately. Romãozinho would follow along knowing that his mother was going to be on the other end of his father's wrath. When they arrived home his father would pull out a dagger and began stabbing his wife. All while this was happening Romãozinho laughed enjoying his mother's "punishment". 

Knowing her son was the reason for all this and his pure joy from her death she would curse him with her dying breath. "You will never die! You won't know heaven or hell, or even rest until there's just one person left living on Earth!"

Romãozinho would continue to laugh especially after she died. This came true as he never grew up. It's said that he can be seen wandering the street causing mayhem. This however doesn't always mean he was entirely bad. In one story Romãozinho assists a woman in labor by scaring a local midwife chicken. This would help the midwife find the lone woman and help her give birth. 

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Saturday, October 23, 2021

Murder of Benigna Cardoso da Silva

 


On October 15, 1928 Benigna da Silva was born as the youngest of four sibilings to her parents José Cardoso da Silva and Teresa Maria da Silva. Benigna would not get to know them though, her father would die before she was born and her mother died when she was one. Sisters Rosa and Honorina Sisnando would adopt the siblings and raised them as Catholics.  

Growing up in Oiti, Santana do Cariri, Ceará, Brazil Benigna was a regular attendee to Mass and took care of household chores. She enjoyed taking walks and having picnics with her siblings. She was known as someone who was always willing to help

In 1941 while she was 12 a Raimundo "Raul" Alves Riberio, who was around her age, would approach her with sexual advances. She would reject him and even asked her parish priest what to do about it. He told her to resist and reject him. She would listen to the advice and continue to reject Raul. 

On October 24th the now 13-year-old Benigna would go and get water in an isolated area. Raul would know she would go there and hide in the bushes waiting for her. She would arrive and he would jump out and attempt to grab her and attempted to rape her. She would resist and this angered him and he pulled out the machete he carried around with him.

He would strike her four times with the machete. The first strike would remove three fingers on her right hand, the second struck her forehead, the third was her stomach, and the fourth hit her neck, and the last strike killed her. She would die at 4 p.m. and Raul fled. Soon after she died her brother Cirineu went to look for her and found her.

She would be buried the next day. Police would investigate and there were several suspects including her brother Cirineu. Raul would be arrested and convicted of his crime. He would serve time in prison and showed remorse for the murder. He would return to the scene of the crime in 1991 and expressed his regret in killing her. Her body was relocated on May 26, 2012, to the Santana do Cariri parish church.

Benigna is in the process of beatification for defensum castitatis, which means she protected herself as a chaste virgin during an attack. Her beatification was initially scheduled for October 21, 2020, but due to Covid, it has been delayed. 


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Wikipedia

DBpedia

Catholic Saints

People Pill

Friday, July 16, 2021

GHOSTS: Alemoa

 


Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy




On the island of Fernando de Noronha in Brazil is a terrifying ghost. The Alemoa (alemã in Portuguese means German Woman), is a blonde ghostly woman who targets wild and imprudent men. She will seduce these men and bring them to their death. 


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Brazil

Course Hero

Wikipedia

Ana Clara Barbosa