Legend of Culebrilla

Every day, the doña looked at its leg with concern. Besides the pain that invaded it, the concern resided in that they had told him/her that that red line that had in the right calf was no more, no less that the culebrilla (it is named this way because it is supposed that their infection comes from the step of a viper or snake on the clothes). Their neighbor had told it to him who had also been some years ago victim of this affection, but in her shoulder. They say that this eruption, with snake form, has a serious problem: if the queue and the head of the supposed snake unite, the person that has it dies. So every day, the doña looked at its leg and he/she did with concern how they came closer the tips.

All suggested him/her homemade formulas to kill that culebrilla. Somebody assured him/her that the better era to rub a toad on the culebrilla so that this absorbed the poison. Other they told him/her that he/she had to write with Chinese ink in both ends of the line the words "Jesús, María and José." They also recommended him/her another formula, perhaps of the good known ones that it consists on filling a vessel with some water and to take three paths, while the following sentence is recited three times a day during three days: "I went for a road, I met with San Pablo, he/she asked me what he/she had, I answered that it was culebrilla that with what would be treated. San Pablo Responded: with water of the font and path of... (name of the sick person)."

That that popularly is known as culebrilla it is an illness called Herpes zoster. It is about an acute infection that takes place for activation of latent virus of which most is carriers: Varicella-zoster or human Herpes virus 3 that it attacks to the ganglions of the sensitive later roots of the spinal ledges. This is the scientific explanation, and the one that can be in the books of Medicine. However, the history of the culebrilla that includes the possibility to die if they join "the queue and the head", it is a myth that accompanies for rituals, and it is taken as true of point that he/she repeats and he/she repeats. Many people that have suffered it, assure that the own physicians could not be treated it and yes the shamans. The culebrilla is one of those petty discords between the science and the tradition. But that it exists, it exists.

The Bad Light

The peons had ended the session, and they had sat down without difficulty to eat some sausages and to take some homemade wine. The field was calm. The night was perfect: hot, windless, with the music that the crickets only know to make, and a replete sky of stars. It was one of those nights that are lent to chat. So the youngest asked to the other ones: did they "know something of don Fernández?" Nobody knew anything, so the man was released to speak. It is that to don Fernández, it had followed it the bad light when he/she went to horse to the town to put a letter in the mail. The peons were amazed, because don Fernández was a good man, owner of an immense field of the field. "What grievance", one said. "Poor family" exclaimed other, he/she was "a good man", he/she said the third. For what counts the tradition, the good of don Fernández he/she had the counted days. That happens to who is appeared the bad light.

Who wants verifiable explanations, he/she should know that the bacteria that intervene in the decomposition from the bones of dead animals to the bleakness dislodge certain afterglow that, among superstitious people, he/she receives the name of bad" "light. Animals and plants decompose and they dissolve, discharging of yes gases (hydrogen and matches, among other) that to the contact with the air become inflamed and they emanate a light semi blued. The circumstance of being this lights in taperas, cemeteries and places with mud and without too much contact with the civilization, it contributes to encourage in the spirit of some people certain concern that perhaps, he/she gave origin to the other part of the history, the one that narrates you in vents, almost in whisper. The one that speaks of souls in pain that you/they continue in the world of the alive ones in form of a light, the bad light.

When the compatriot sees one of these lights and talonea to the pony so that it takes it far from the place, the light begins to follow it. Scientifically, the explanation is that the one cleared that he/she goes leaving the movement of the horse and horseman they are occupied by the adjacente air that travels in the same address and with same speed that the terrified compatriot, taking gets the gases that give origin to the fluorescence.

In search of an explanation for this phenomenon, many people allocate this appearance to the appearance of a wandering soul that has not been able to still to rest in peace, or the one of somebody that received violent death and it reclaims vengeance. That soul is punishing and it takes the name of bad light. Others say that that light is the death that he/she comes to warn to some that they received the hour. Be which is the explanation, the best thing it is to have it very far, more if he/she has a green tint. In that case, it is the bad light, it is really of the bads.

The Eye Wrong

If the baby cries the whole night, he fed well and there is not anything that it indicates that he has potbelly pain, of hearings, or any other one, then there is not doubt: he/she has bad of eye. It is about one of the Rio Plata so many beliefs that leave transmitting from a generation to another. It is verified that a petty one has bad of eye when they are sad, they suffer of rachitis, eczemas, endless cry, and even when they die without explanation. It is said that the eye wrong is a charm that has its I root in Europe, and that he/she has extended all over the world in a to open up and to close of eyes.

Those that believe in this maleficio, assure that it is a form of making bad without necessity of elaborating magic potions or of puncturing alfilarias to a cloth puppet. To make the wrong, in this case only coarse with the look that he/she leaves traslucir feelings of envy and bad desires. And of there on behalf of the wrong. According to the popular belief, it is for that reason about a mysterious force that falls on the most defenseless in many cases, it is that it is generally given in newly born or babies, because they don't still have the enough strength to combat this bad.

With the look, besides making sick a baby, it can dry off plants or to fuse the business of somebody. But it is necessary to keep in mind that of the charm that we speak, it can be casual, and to be unaware to the intentions of who causes it. Some people possess a very strong look and they produce it without at least to know it. For that reason it is recommended that when he/she is praised a newly born baby, it is necessary to add: "God conserves" it, then, the petty one won't be victim of the eye wrong.

How the superstitions have changed a country to other and also with the step of the time, an only form doesn't exist of knowing if somebody has bad of eye. There is who they say that to know if somebody was victim of the same one, it is necessary to pour a stream of oleum in a soup plate with clean water. If he/she is formed an eye in the center of the plate, this should be cut with the sheet of a knife or another metal object. Then it should be dewed with a petty handful of thick salt. While they are carried out these cure tasks, it is necessary to pray Our Father and to request for the "browsed" person's health.

Another way to know if somebody has bad of eye, it is tossing three charcoals in a vessel with water. If the three charcoals go to the bottom of the vessel, then that person has bad of eye. In this case, it is necessary to be careful with the size and weight of the charcoals, these won't be very big or heavy because if they are it, they will leave logically toward the bottom.

In many areas, to prevent the eye wrong in the newly born ones, he/she gets used to hang up them in the neck, a petty tooth of dog or any other eyetooth.

The custom also exists of ordering to search who made the charm. For example, when it is believed that the petty one was "browsed", it is sent to search the author of the damage who should return immediately to play the sick person. If he/she doesn't return, it is supposed that he/she has had intention of making him/her I damage, unless it sends a cowlick of their hairs or some security of their appurtenance that it should be arranged on the boy's head and he/she ends this way with the wrong.

That it is the Faith an Existential Explained Doubt

A possible explanation of an existential doubt....

Many philosophers and enough well-known theologians have hugged the idea that the faith is the base of all knowledge. An example is San Agustín. One of their key contributions to the philosophy was the idea of using the faith to be able to understand, settled down by Agustín in their statement "Crede, ut intelligas" (he/she "Believes, so that you can understand." This statement overflows the realm of the religion, to embrace the entirety of the knowledge. In essence, the faith should be present, to end up knowing anyone thing. In other words, it should be assumed, to believe or to have faith in the credibility of a person, place, thing or he/she devises, with the purpose of having a base for the knowledge.

I develop of the knowledge in the children.
An illustration of this concept is in the development of the knowledge in the children. A boy, in their first years the input source of information is controlled by the parents, not having opportunity neither test to be able to contrast other fonts. In those years the parents teach him/her their method of contrast of the reality, inheriting the bases of what their progenitors understand as good and bad. If in the family environment a wild constant violation exists of what is good and bad, the boy it won't be able to work appropriately outside of its family environment. The discipline establishes the bad securities, while it reinforces the good ones. An unconscionable discipline, based on emotions, alone attentive against the boy's emotional integrity, and in occasions until it could attempt against the physical integrity.

The objective of the teaching of the parents, is to endow the boy of the capacity of establishing its own faith based on its own test, bony, to endow him/her of approach and contrast capacity or in other words, to teach him/her to believe with approach.

When the boy matures, the quality of the teaching is demonstrated by the capacity to go manufacturing and/or modifying the old ones, demonstrating capacities of adaptation and survival. Therefore, the boy begins with the default values 'installed' for the parents, this it will serve as filter through which another teaching will be processed and/or it will evaluate. Following this reasoning line, and assuming that a boy has an empiric petty or limited knowledge, the knowledge that ends up having has a fundamental base in the faith.

Credulity and faith:
The adults believe in that the authorities are appropriately enabled to run with quality their work, although in the news they occur formless that they violate or they should violate that belief in a constant way. Since there is not a better alternative, it is trusted in that in some future moment, the authorities realize the social serious damage that bears to administer the power based on interior approaches and partidístas (in the best in the cases), leaving to a side the true interests of the citizens.

The vehement insistence, beyond the demonstration of the facts, in behaving in certain way, hoping the repetition causes effect some under the current conditions, propitiating a change without knowing like it will happen; he/she is named credulismo. You could name faith, if in some last moment, effectiveness has been demonstrated in the use of the authority. Lacking time and/or of petitions to evaluate the whole knowledge that one has exhaustive and empirically, favorable the credulity for desperation, demonstrating to certain grade that there is not difference practice between religion and politics.

The religious knowledge
In origin, as much the scientific knowledge as the religious leave of the same thing: Last facts that establish truths observables for the human relative understanding to a time. The difference settles down with the step of the time. The religion tries of 'to freeze' those truths, reason to be about conserving what was patent in a past and it doesn't stop to be about incorporating new standards of adapted reasonings to the mean. When they find the logic that justifies to conserve the same knowledge, their desire it is reinforced to grant to a power higher to the man that revelation and, to want that that power considers that eternally good knowledge.

When the mean changes it subjects the individuals to new wears, so much physical as emotional. In those instants it is when the religion of the science is distanced. The religion searches as making perpetual a demonstrated knowledge certain in a time without keeping in mind the change of the mean.

The complexity of some philosophical set forth vericuetos to conserve the consistent integrity of the dogmatic system, convinces the devote religious that its faith is true and eternal. On the other hand, every time they are more people that observe that those vericuetos doesn't contribute practical solutions to their quotidian lives; it is in that point where two types of different behaviors appear: The consistent (tendente to the change) behavior and the credulous (tendente to the fanaticism) behavior.

Factors that can intervene
The rational force
If the faith is born of an assumption, he/she unites it with evidences of the past and a reasonable support for which a prospective result settles down, he/she will wake up in the person a yearning touch that will induce it to act to procure that waited. Therefore, he/she will give an interior cautious force that will try to make sure that the conditions are the ideals, as a result and mainly and the most important thing, possesses domain of the reason on their acts. To this respect it is not an interior raw force that he/she is born and it is not known as.

The will is the expression of works for the satisfactory explanation to our convincing. In our trust he/she leaves in the premises, assumptions and/or suppositions that will allow us falsar the knowledge. Although, our will will be null before a non satisfactory position from the rational point of view.
The hope is the yearning that one has to see resolute and concluded a work. This work is subject to a method that in turn you subject to a theory.
The belief is the part of good will that we put when working. If this condition one doesn't give, the person would deny her cooperation.
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The moral force
It is what a person sustains in the social mean of the quotidian life.
If the faith is not born like interior force, but rather simply one accepts the authority of a person directly for some type of morbid fear to be punished or to win the engaged remuneration. In this case the force is born of the person's own will. This submission type, has long term, and of being violated the initial (well the rules for which it is punished or the rules for which it is rewarded) promise, to the attrition and lost of the faith and/or the absolute forfeiture of the submission. Case that the person persists in even sustaining that faith more hallá of the pulsión that allows him/her to undergo, one runs the risk of making sick. If these bases are not violated, the person will continue healthy and satisfied of observing that her effort serves as something (well for not being punished and/or well to be rewarded, the same bases that they are used in the training of any other animal). Of this submission he/she is born the faith like religious tenet.

Moral will is the expression of our acts for the trust in that that applied will be of benefit for others. This attitude leaves of a healthy, satisfied person I get same and relatively happy.
Esperanza morals is the expression of our acts for the trust that we will obtain a morally in agreement environment to what we settle down as good, adjusting our behavior, since you/he/she is the morally correct thing.
Moral belief is the firm conviction, beyond any argument that seeks to persuade us of satisfying us otherwise, expressing our acts for the trust that we will be pleasing somebody powerful and that this he/she will make what promises for that he/she has the power to make it.
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The emotional force
If the faith is born of a desire, which has found a belief that supports him and adding him/her the force that contributes the approval grupal from a community to the self-esteem and the person's dignity, as well as of the absolute trust that the own individual confers to his own desires, he will give an interior raw force as a result without rational guideline.

The faith

* He/she is an immense don of God. We should be requested it
* It is worth more than the life
* The fair one lives off the faith (Rom 1, 17)
* To put in her all that we are, all that we wait, all that we love
* It maintains us in foot in the moments of obscurity
* Not it is a mere feeling of the appearance of God or of the will of God in our lives.
* It should penetrate and to wrap the whole person: Their trust, their fidelity, their emotional adhesion, their intellectual consent.
* The Christian vocation is absurd and incomprehensible without the faith
* Not to request to God tests
* Not to have him/her fear to the future because the Mr. it won't fail us
* Without her the life is sad and the impossible fidelity

In what to believe as members of the Church, and therefore to live consequently:

* To intensify the faith in the Church, as locus in quo God has put on to give fruits
* In that God speaks to us through Pope, the bishops and priests
* In the Christian spirit that springs from the Gospel, as the locus in quo is expressed for us the will of God, and to make it life of our life, accepting it with humility and meekness.
* That Christ has united mystically to each one of the Christian
* In ourselves and let us don't doubt of our capacity, dons and talents to carry out our commission
* In the fecundity of our heady lives to Christ's furrow
* In the transcendency and value of our handover to the souls

The faith is:

* To give us unconditionally
* To surrender blindly to God
* To allow us to conquer for their love for their lawsuit without making repairs
* To walk, to suffer, to fight, to fall and to get up being about you faithful to a God that he/she calls us and that we don't see
* "To rush in the darkness of the night, a star that one day saw continuing, although he/she doesn't know to where it will take me"
* Sobrellevar with happiness the confusions, the surprises, the fatigues and the frights of my fidelity
* To trust of God and to trust The
* Total adhesion, full with love to the sacred will of God
* Who gives value to the life, to the sufferings, to the difficulties, to everything
* That ember that illuminates and it heats in the most terrible fights in the life

Reason to believe:

Because we have of warranter of our lives, of our vocation and of our commission to God that is faithful.
Consequences of a faith languid mortecina, turned-off, weak, before the plans of God:

* Many problems
* Difficulties
* Crisis
* Temptations
* Remote mental before the Christian vocation
* Contempt of court before the cross
* Apathy before the commission
* Interior division, planning to believe in God but searching in the practice to only carry out our whims

Enemies of the faith:

* Formation ullage
* Abundance of rationalism
* Scientific formation full with prejudgments against all that is not verifiable and verifiable.
* To request to God tests and guarantees

The faith should be:

* Deep
* Lucid
* compromising
* Demanding
* Alive

Consequences of an alive and generous faith:

* Apostolic fruits
* Generosity, docility and maturity before the compromises and requirements of the Christian life
* To opt to leave to a side the selfishness and the attachment to the things of the world
* To be helpful, general purpose, delicate and kind with all
* Happiness when living for the faith with the on trust in God
* Humility and meekness for the will of God
* Carriers of happiness, peace and it thrills

Pair to raise the faith:

* A lot of sentence
* To cut with the rationalism
* To imitate María's example