"Argentine ‘adoption’ custom opened to Jews" by Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post December 31, 2014
WASHINGTON — Last week, Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner ‘‘adopted’’ a boy as her godson to prevent him from turning into a werewolf, according to multiple news reports. A report in the Guardian subsequently deemed the story spurious.
Kirchner tweeted images of a small ceremony conducted with the family of Yair Tawil, the seventh child of an Argentine Jewish family, during which the Tawils met with the president and lit candles on a menorah. She was adopting the child as her godson, a symbolic gesture made by generations of Argentine leaders over the years.
And here I thought Zionists only controlled North American and Western European governments and societies. Silly me.
According to the Independent, tradition holds that the seventh son of a family is doomed to turn into a werewolf — known as ‘‘el lobison’’ in Argentina — after his 13th birthday and will stalk the night in its beastly form.
They are the same ones who said snowstorms were a thing of the past.
The legend stems from indigenous folklore and melded with superstitions of European settlers in the 19th century.
And here I am finding it in my newspaper!
The fear of this werewolf-child was so pronounced that many seventh sons were killed after they were born, which started the practice in 1907 of Argentine leaders taking these children symbolically under their wing.
In the past half-century, the ceremonies have been opened up to girls and now, for the first time, Jews.
That's why my jewspaper took notice.
The Tawil family appealed to the Argentine government as early as the 1990s to have the practice extended to non-Catholic families. The boy’s new status as the president’s godson wins him a gold medal as well as a full educational scholarship, according to the Independent.
Tales of shape-shifting demons and feral monsters slaughtering livestock can be found in many parts of Latin America. This Argentine iteration can be traced to a local Guarani story of the seven cursed spawn of Tau, an evil mythological spirit, and Kerana, a beautiful woman he seduced and kidnapped. The seventh son was ‘‘Luison,’’ who appears sometimes in the shape of a dog and feeds on corpses.
But citing an Argentine historian, the Guardian disputes the connection between beliefs about this folk horror and the presidential act of adopting a seventh son as a godson. In updates posted to their websites, both the Independent and Buzzfeed say European folklore surrounding seventh sons included fears of the child turning into a monster.
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I know it's only an anecdotal; however, over the years I have noticed the supremacist media cast insult or infers a certain craziness upon all but the altrui$tic and chosen cla$$ and people.
Related:
"Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has suffered a fracture in her left ankle, the latest in a series of health setbacks. A statement signed by two doctors, Marcelo Ballesteros and Daniel Fernandez, on Friday did not specify how the president suffered the injury."
We are now told she slipped on a wet floor.
The cur$e of the werewolf?
