Video: Corpse Bride: The Mystical Story of the La Pascualita Mannequin
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Mystical stories can be treated in different ways: with fear, interest, or even with a bit of light irony. It seems that all the most unusual has already been described in Gothic novels, but even today there are secrets that do not cease to excite the imagination of people. One of these mysteries is associated with mannequin La Pascualitawho has been “living” in the showcase of a wedding salon for 82 years! There is a legend among the inhabitants of the city of Chihuahua (Mexico) that in fact this is the perfectly preserved corpse of the daughter of the store owner!
The story goes that the mannequin appeared in the showcase of the salon on March 25, 1930. Passers-by couldn't take their eyes off the beautiful girl with regular features until they noticed the amazing resemblance of the mannequin to the store owner, Pascuala Esparza. A tragic story was connected with the daughter of Pascuala: on the wedding day, the girl died from the bite of the Black Widow spider. The tragedy happened quite recently, was on everyone's lips, so the locals immediately decided that the inconsolable father had exhibited the embalmed body of his own daughter in the window! Pascuala Esparza tried to refute the rumors that spread in the blink of an eye, but it was too late …
Over the years, the girl's name was forgotten, she began to be called by the name of her father, La Pascualita. Today, tourists from South America, the USA and Europe come to see it with their own eyes. Despite the fact that so many years have passed, the mannequin still attracts attention with its beauty and incredible realism. Many people claim that La Pascualita's eyes follow the shopper everywhere in the store. The sellers themselves fearfully change her clothes every two weeks behind closed curtains. They say that you can even see varicose veins on her legs.
Scientists, of course, deny the version that an embalmed corpse has been in the showcase for so many years, since special conditions are required for its storage. However, according to legend, one night, the beloved Frenchman La Pascualita should appear and magically bring the mannequin to life, taking him out of the city.
But from the remains of frame mannequins, which have no mystical stories, now they make three-meter gundams: it looks impressive and original!
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