Sunday, January 24, 2021, 00:21
Saved by God from the bonfire
Some historical moments have offered the ideal culture broth for imitators: The popular desire for a deceased character, added to personal and political interests, has led to striking Auges of the deceptive ones. One of them took place after the death of Juana de Arco, executed at the stake in 1431. In the following years, countless young people who said they had been announced the heroin of France were saved from the flames in a miraculous way. One of the best known was Claudia des Armoises, which He obtained the support of Juana’s brothers and was recognized by people who had treated the ‘Orleans Maiden’. They say that the girl dominated a number of magic tricks who surround the idea that it had supernatural support. Claudia and Juana’s brothers traveled from city to city for years, collected support and valuable gifts, but His career was interrupted when he met King Carlos VII, To whom Juana the Arco had a secret at the time that had convinced him of his status as a sent from God. Claudia of course had no idea.
Until the cake was discovered
King Sebastián I of Portugal died 24 years in 1578, in the Battle of Alcazarquivir, but we took something for which many subjects would not have been agreed: after his death he got up Sebastianism, a movement between politics and mysticism that claimed that Sebastian was still alive and that he would return one day. That fervent desire crystallized in varied figures who claimed to be Sebastian, including characters who are so unexpected as a Calabrés. Here we will concentrate on Gabriel de Espinosa, the ‘Passero de Madrigal’ (by Madrigal de las Altas Torres, province Ávila), a Spaniard who gave a broadcast to the deceased (at least he was Little Head as he) and who was bought with a Portuguese August for the ‘missing. Within a few months he had already promised to marry Mrs María Ana de Austria, cousin of Sebastián, niece of Felipe II and, at the time, nun. The adventure had a bitter result for the pastry chef: they hung him up, they beheaded him, exhausted and exposed his loot to the gates of Madrigal.
Too many demetrios
For something it is baptized for a few years as a tumultuous period, and more in a country of both crowds and Russia. Zarévich Dimitri, son of Iván the Terrible, died in strange circumstances in 1591, but It should ‘revive’ three times, by the hand of three people known as the pseudo-demon stories, Or as Dimitri I, Dimitri II and Dimitri III, all nicknamed ‘The False’ and apparently from the clergy. The first became Tsar for ten months and even received the approval of his alleged mother, the widow of Ivan, but He was killed and his ash shot up with guns in the direction of Poland. On the second pseudo-demotrio, who inherited the wife of the previous curious, also killed him and then cut his head and feet. And the third is less known, but they say that he burned the taxes of the area that dominated and that … yes, he died executed.
The family that grew after dying
Three demetrios are nothing compared to The dozens of imitators that came to light from 1918, when the Bolsheviks killed the Russian imperial family. The Romanov improvements were created as mushrooms and some became very popular: it was the case of Anna Anderson, who proclaimed the Grand Duchess Anastasia and that she was not even called Anna, because it was the Polish employee Franziska Shanzkowska. In an unusual phenomenon, the royal family has even grown since then, since then A Dutch claimed to be a sixth daughter of the Tsaren, supplied by adoption, whose existence no one knew anything. The ‘official’ origin of this woman was less noble, but also picturesque: her father (or perhaps adoptive vein?) He used psychological forces to diagnose diseases in urine.
