un caballo misterioso
Oct. 26th, 2023 03:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asakiyumeThere's something inherently mysterious about living on the edge of thousands of miles of rain forest. Mysterious things just happen; that's just the way it is.
My tutor sent me this video (and gave me permission to share it) of an eerie encounter she had with a horse the other evening. For the record, I saw no horses whatsoever while I was down there, and though I'm sure that there are people who do have horses, I find it hard to imagine them in the neighborhoods I was in. This horse was apparently out enjoying a nighttime stroll... alone...
.... There are mysterious horses associated with other Amazonian cities and towns--like the Peruvian Amazonian town of Caballo Cocha. That town exists near where long ago (so the story goes) there was a village of the same name that disappeared below the waters of a lake, a colonial town with houses, a church, and of course horses. Now, when someone passes by in the direction of the current town of Caballo Cocha, past the lake, one can hear the neighing and galloping of horses, the ringing of church bells, and the sounds of gunfire. Some people, passing by the lake, see people in the sunken town, inviting them down to share in a party. At the beginning of the 20th century, soldiers were afraid to let their horses near that lake for fear they'd be drawn down into it. (Source for my retelling of the legend)
And the current town has a statue of a white horse rising from the lake.
This story and video offered up to you for this season of spirits and mysterious things.
My tutor sent me this video (and gave me permission to share it) of an eerie encounter she had with a horse the other evening. For the record, I saw no horses whatsoever while I was down there, and though I'm sure that there are people who do have horses, I find it hard to imagine them in the neighborhoods I was in. This horse was apparently out enjoying a nighttime stroll... alone...
.... There are mysterious horses associated with other Amazonian cities and towns--like the Peruvian Amazonian town of Caballo Cocha. That town exists near where long ago (so the story goes) there was a village of the same name that disappeared below the waters of a lake, a colonial town with houses, a church, and of course horses. Now, when someone passes by in the direction of the current town of Caballo Cocha, past the lake, one can hear the neighing and galloping of horses, the ringing of church bells, and the sounds of gunfire. Some people, passing by the lake, see people in the sunken town, inviting them down to share in a party. At the beginning of the 20th century, soldiers were afraid to let their horses near that lake for fear they'd be drawn down into it. (Source for my retelling of the legend)
And the current town has a statue of a white horse rising from the lake.
This story and video offered up to you for this season of spirits and mysterious things.
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Date: 2023-10-27 10:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-27 12:17 pm (UTC)Hurray, mission accomplished!
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Date: 2023-10-27 11:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-27 12:19 pm (UTC)It was her video of the horse that set me off, though, because it was so uncanny for a horse to be just wandering loose, at night. Stray dogs, sure. But stray horses?
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Date: 2023-10-27 11:19 am (UTC)2. Seven years ago I was driving t'lads to Taos, New Mexico for a youth hockey tournament. It got dark as we went, and eventually I was driving on a very dark US highway when Sheeyun cried out "Look out! There's a horse on the road!" I never in fact saw the horse, though I glimpsed a group of horses right by the roadside, I don't know how we didn't run into the one on the road but I guess my swerve worked, nd nothing dire happened. It was terrifying, though. For years Chun Woo would refer to "a horse on the road," I think because it was so picturesque nd surprising to see me blench.
There was of course little or no water there, though the tournament turned out to be "an' who will be lairds o' the slush?"
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Date: 2023-10-27 12:22 pm (UTC)And your story of the horse in the road! ... One time we returned home at night when there was a blackout, so there were no streetlights or house lights on in our neighborhood. Everything was very dark. When the headlights of our car illuminated the driveway, there three deer standing there, looking at us, affronted. It was as if the headlights had materialized them out of thin air. Indeed, that was really what had happened: they had been invisible to us before then. Like with you and the shadow horses in New Mexico.
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Date: 2023-10-27 02:35 pm (UTC)no subject
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