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> As it happened, the woman had been born on Friday the 13th in Florida's Okefenokee Swamp. The midwife who'd delivered her had also delivered two other childre
by vanderZwan 5y ago
> As it happened, the woman had been born on Friday the 13th in Florida's Okefenokee Swamp. The midwife who'd delivered her had also delivered two other children that day. She told the girls' parents that all three children had been hexed. The first girl would die before her sixteenth birthday. The second would die before her twenty-first. The third—the woman in this hospital—would die before she turned twenty-three.
I'm sorry to get off-topic, but what kind of midwife would do such a thing? Other than "a character in a made-up story", that is.
- sibeliuss 5y agoI'm skeptical of this story as well. Not that I don't believe in this kind of thing. But its a bit hmmm
- vanderZwan 5y agoExactly: multiple friends of mine had grandparents who explicitly were saying they were only holding on for long enough to see a great-grandchild being born, or a grand-child get married, or something along those lines, and who then passed away a few weeks after that milestone was reached. Based on that kind of anecdata I too believe in the impact of belief on health. It is just this particular story that raises a few questions.