Cupid Chastised – Bartolomeo Manfredi – between 1605 and 1610
A Mexican Priest Flogs the Corpse of a Dead Wizard
I couldn’t even make this stuff up if I tried…
“Yesterday at Villa Libre, the parish priest, in the presence of the Jefe Politico, flogged and exorcised the body of a dead man, who in life had been accused of being a wizard, and was said to hold converse with the devil. And this is the nineteenth centery!
Jesus Molinez, of Zacatecas, whose girl had been untrue to him, commited suicide by smoking several enormous cigarettes of marihuana, while lying in a pool abounding with venomous insects, which, while he was insensible, destroyed his life.”
The Memphis appeal, April 25, 1887
Hector Rondon. A priest looks for help for a Venezuelan soldier wounded during bitter fighting with rebel marines in Puerto Cabello. 1962