(November 1, 2016 at 9:19 pm)Jehanne Wrote: It was Lucia herself, upon noticing the Sun emerging, who screamed, "Look at the sun!" That's what got the crowd's attention, and like, provoked hysteria and panic among them:
Which is frighteningly easy to induce in a group of people prone to superstitious thinking. Again, people from my village at the time "miracles" were happening would claim they saw such things as apparitions of Jesus and Mary, faith healings, icons dripping oil, cross of Jesus shaking, and so on.
For the record, the cross of Jesus was indeed shaking (as me and my friends at the time clearly saw it), but according to some people who went to the back of the room at the church, it was some idiot banging the wall from behind causing the cross attached to the wall from the other side to shake. It didn't stop gullible people from kneeling down before it and praying, though. And insisting to others that it was a miracle, of course.