The trapped miners and the white butterfly

[Cleanelec]

Copiapo, Chile (CNN) -- In Chile's dry Atacama desert, folklore mixes with superstition and superstition blends with religion.

Scorching days give way to cold, foggy nights.

In the tent village christened "Camp Hope," at the gates of the San Jose mine complex, close-knit miners' families huddle together and light a fire.

They tell tales in the glow of red-hot embers. And the one everyone wants to hear these past few nights is an almost supernatural tale about the miner and the white butterfly.

The story was first recounted in the spidery lines of a letter penned by Jorge Galeguillos, one of the 33 miners trapped half a mile deep in the bowels of the earth



http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/09/27/chile.miner.butterfly/index.html

[intaglio]

1. It is a lovely story but

excuse me if I doubt the source and wonder why so many other catholic miners died.

[dbt]

2. Your post just earned this story another rec.

:evilgrin: