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I want to share a chilling story with you today.
It can seem a movie but it isn’t..better said, there’s a movie about it, but you know, one of this movie that starts with the label “ based on true event”.
It took place at the beginning of XX century in Spain.
I have seen along my career as a teacher how many problems can develop a kid when his parents consider him as a possession. I know the word possession sound hard but this how a kid is considered many times. As a project in which parents have all the power in. So, you, as a parent, feel free to project your expectations, your desires, your goals, your ideas on the child. Luckily, there are many parents who have common sense enough to respect their kids as unique and with their own personalities and freedom.

The story of Hildegart Rodriguez (baptised as Carmen) and her mother is an extreme case of on one side, an obsession and in the other case, an attempt to take control on someone else’s life.

I see Hildegart’s mum as an sculptor who is making a marvellous statue and when this sculpture, for the effect of magic, like happened with Pinocchio, breaths life and wants to follow her own path, the sculptor consider himself entitled to break the sculpture down.

Many ink ran in that epoch about sanity or insanity of the mother, Aurora.

Hope you enjoy this story and your comment will be very welcome.

https://sangerpapers.wordpress.com/2013/10/07/hildegart-rodriguez-carballeira-a-prodigy-a-champion-the-tragedy/

A side note: Aurora finished her life in a mental institution taking care of a kitty and then, when the kitty died, taking care of a cloth doll.

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SW-User

So much strange things around, mostly still and kept hidden behind thick walls.
This reminds me a bit at this story;
http://www.crimemagazine.com/papin-sisters-frances-crime-century

twistermind · 51-55, F

@SW-User Thank you very much for the link. I remember this story. One of the sisters seemed to be influenced by the other sister’s insanity. It was called “folie a deux”. You know how French people are to name things in the most marvellous descriptive way.

SW-User

@twistermind Indeed, I don't know where I did know that story from, did you share it maybe once?

twistermind · 51-55, F

@SW-User The Papin sisters’ one.
No. I didn’t.

twistermind · 51-55, F

@SW-User You know, it’s interesting to read about past cases bc you can also learn about the background of that epoch and how these stories were percived by those people that time.
The story you mentioned is a good example of that. How women were perceived by that society. Papin sisters’ mother had no maternal instinct. Hard to conceived for a woman in that epoch.

SW-User

@twistermind Not that much has changed, maybe among professionals but certainly not by most common people, for some strange reasons.

twistermind · 51-55, F

@SW-User Yes, it’s true. I think that part is cultural. Cultural facts take a lot of time to be modified.
But, on another side, I also think that is in our genetic code. You know. For the sake of reproduction of the species, women have to have the tendency to take care of the ones who are put on their care of. Obviously, the same happens with men but in a different way. Men provides the clan to cover their primary needs and also defend the clan of possible enemies, women manage with internal care of the clan. I know this is an old-fashioned vission but it’s in our DNA.
Scientists are studying the level of implications of genes and such but it’s true that women tend to have lower levels of criminality than men.
Anyway, at this point, we shouldn’t be shocked for knowing a case of a woman who kills the closest loved people.