quarta-feira, 8 de agosto de 2007

Superstição e Natalidade

Da Wiki:

"In Galician, Portuguese and Brazilian folklore, it is the seventh of the sons (but sometimes the seventh child, a boy, after a line of six daughters) who becomes a werewolf.[13] In Portugal, the seventh daughter is supposed to become a witch and the seventh son a werewolf; the seventh son often gets the Christian name "Bento" (Portuguese form of "Benedict", meaning "blessed") as this is believed to prevent him from becoming a werewolf later in life. In Brazil, the seventh daughter become a headless (replaced with fire) horse called "Mula-sem-cabeça" (Headless Mule). The belief in the curse of the seventh son was so widespread in Northern Argentina (where the werewolf is called the "lobizón"), that seventh sons were frequently abandoned, ceded in adoption or killed. A 1920 law decreed that the President of Argentina is the official godfather of every seventh son. Thus, the State gives a seventh son one gold medal in his baptism and a scholarship until his twenty first year. This effectively ended the abandonments, but there still persists a tradition in which the President godfathers seventh sons."

Pois eu até acho bem! E podíamos cá fazer qualquer coisa parecida, para fomentar a parca natalidade. Que tal o Cavaco apadrinhar todos os (sei lá) quintos filhos? Uma bolsa de estudo garantida pode fazer a diferença em muitos círculos da nossa sociedade, não?

3 comentários:

Atractor Estranho disse...

Onde é que tu andas a descobrir essas coisas?!?!?
Se for eu posso ficar antes um vampiro em vez de um lobisomem?
É mais giri... ;)

Catioska disse...

ía perguntar exactamente o mesmo! passas o dia a pensar em quê?!...

absorbent disse...

às vezes acho q passo os dias a pensar no futuro, no de todos...