(November 2, 2016 at 4:13 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(November 2, 2016 at 3:24 pm)pocaracas Wrote: It wouldn't take much to make those kids believe in what they were being told... Rural Portugal was pretty much pastoral - no sophistication of any kind... Very religious to begin with, so, by default, gullible.
Curiously, on the day the sun was seen to wobble, there was no apparition... no lady, no angel... just the sun. It's as if it would be impossible to pull such a trick in front of all those people.
Eh, the Virgin Mary could have appeared herself instead of the sun thing, but I honestly think that would have been easier to pull off if it was some sort of magic trick and much more easily able to be explained away. I think the sun literally starting to move around in the sky and change colors and drying up puddles is a lot more shocking and convincing and difficult to pull off than if a lady or winged person were to show up claiming to be divine.
It was caused by ocular effects from staring into the sun.
