What Can Be Mistaken For A Hernia

A Fairy Tale?

's night.

Lying in my bed I turn around looking for a bit 'of warmth and tuck the blanket in an attempt to open my eyes around me the darkness of the room is broken by a light coming from glass door closed and covered with a soft white curtains.

I see two heads in about half a meter above the ground as children, but with a thick white beard, peeping on each other between the drapes, and an oil lamp. Supported from either side of which projects all around the bobbing light of its flame. The terror comes over me and not enough smiles reassuring that I turn to calm down.

In an instant jump out of bed and with one click from my slingshot sprinter in the next room, the bedroom, to seek asylum and hospitality to the Latvian my parents.

Mother awakened by all the fuss gather with patience my story, then looked at me kindly and cheered for me after what must have been just a bad dream, he invites me to go back to my room. .

sadly back in my bed and set aside the blankets up to my eyes I find the courage to look back towards the doors. They're still there and this time they look at me with a wry grin and awful!

screamed and back into the room of her mother, and this time without asking any permission I put in his bed.

are safe.

I could have between 5 and 7 years at the time of this event but the memory, now at a distance 50 years is still vivid in my mind.

was perhaps indigestion as suggested my mother? But how was it possible to have a nightmare when you wake up and move to the waking state?

Yet my eyes were wide open! It was not a dream ... .. Perhaps it had been something else.

Remembering how elves with red hats, short stature and beard, I did a search and contrary to my expectations of meeting a wide collection of bibliographic references to them not only in the Nordic traditions (as As I expected), but virtually every region of Italy.

A list of over a hundred names, goblins scattered in the woods and hamlets in the mountains as in the hills or the sea, exotic names that resemble their practices to jokes and teasing, good-natured od'indole capricious.

Ammutandori, Ana Sosana, Augurielli, Barabao ... Sand Man , Sanguanelli Sblésen Servan, Grabber, .... Tockji, U 'Greetings, Yulin ... paw Gal , Zuerghi

a constant in their variety, to be seen by children in particular

seems clear that older people have wanted to domesticate the taking into account their fabrications of audience they were addressed by making the story more interesting with the declaration of a 'presumed sympathetic' goblins for kids.


And if the elders had just inherited these tales from their childhood memories?.

We are facing a kind of archetype?

This would explain some similarities in the descriptions of elves living in geographical areas often far from each other and with different traditions!

Sure, a friend of children can only be of their own stature, then gnome, and if it is a powerful friend can only have a beard, a sign of strength, virility.

But the visions ?

in children's production dimethyltryptamine , endogenous hallucinogenic tryptamine present in the cerebrospinal fluid, is ten times that produced in adulthood, in fact, with advancing years is the cycle inhibits

of transformation of neuro transmitters secreted by the pineal gland and basic components for the synthesis of DMT.

In other words, children can 'really' see the goblins, or representations of their minds.

This gift of vision can be recovered in adulthood by a stay in dark places that help to synthesize melatonin, chain element for the production of DMT.

And 'maybe this is the key to the mystical visions of hermits who are taxed at long periods spent in dimly lit or completely dark caves?