The Hungarian youngster went to sleep and aroused from sleep the next day to come as a 40-year-old Spanish mom

She spoke Spanish, she claimed to be a 40-year-old mom

Írisz, the 16-year-old daughter of chemical engineer Gerő Farczády, who lives in a sublime villa in Budagyongye, on Lepke utca, and who, consistent with her oldsters, used to be probably the most exceptional scholars on the ladies’ highschool in Sopron, one night in 1933, felt ill sooner than going to mattress. Her mom used to be surprised to note that the lady used to be slightly respiring, as though the soul had left her frame. The apprehensive mom used to be already afraid that the lady would go away the earthly global within the morning, the next day to come Irisz nonetheless aroused from sleepalternatively, the oldsters had been most effective surprised then. The woman began shouting in a international language, jumped away from bed and sought after to run away, his oldsters attempted in useless to carry him again, even if he referred to as him, he didn’t perceive what they had been pronouncing to him.

It quickly was transparent that Iris speaks Spanish, he stored bringing up Madrid and a undeniable Pedro; since no person within the circle of relatives knew Spanish, they started to show the lady who had long past via a unusual transformation in German, and in a couple of months she mastered the language so smartly that she used to be ready to be informed a couple of issues from it. A lot to their dismay she advised himto be referred to as Lucía Altarez Salvion, used to be born in Madrid in 1894 in a tenement space at 7 Calle Oscura and died of pneumonia the similar night time that Iris fell sick, and the following morning he discovered himself within the Hungarian woman’s frame. She additionally advised many main points, as she mentioned, when she used to be younger, she used to be added to an afternoon laborer named Pedro, whom she did not like in the beginning, however through the years they preferred each and every different and so they had 14 kids, it used to be extraordinarily unhappy that she needed to go away them there.

The unusual tale it used to be most effective made public two years later, in April 1935, when The Est reached the ears of his younger reporter, János Ráthonyi. The budding journalist visited Lepke Boulevard, and interviewed Íris, this is, Lucía and her circle of relatives; the mysterious soul-wandering lady sang Spanish folks songs to Ráthony and signed her identify at his request. The circle of relatives unanimously mentioned it, within the girbegur at the paper, easy writing even accidentally, it does now not resemble the stringy pearl letters of the highest scholar Irisz. His mom additionally reported that how they witnessed her transformation: the melancholic, unhappy, scholarly nature of Írisz was a lady with a Latin temperament, who sings in her loose time and likes to bop. relative of the Farczádys, Tibor Hümpfner, a Cistercian college professor dwelling in Rome, additionally visited them when he used to be in Budapest: he talked to Íris in regards to the church buildings in Madrid, which she strangely knew with spectacular accuracy.

There have been an increasing number of suspicious parts

Írisz’s father – who used to be now not in Budapest when the mysterious “transmigration of souls” came about, and so they concealed the topic from him for a very long time – he used to be reasonably skeptical of the tale, however the mom believed it with none doubt, certainly the soul of a forty-year-old Spanish mom entered the frame in their teenage daughter. His largest predicament used to be what to do with the surprising visitor: will have to they factor a loss of life certificates for Írisz and a Spanish passport and identification card for Lucía? The case used to be picked up through the tabloids in no time, and it was a countrywide sensation. A number of brokers visited Íris and her mom, who promised to make a film celebrity out of the little woman, however showmen and circuses additionally presented her a freelance.

“Lucía” Spanish danceThe Est / Arcanum Virtual Library

Est, in the meantime, via its correspondent in Madrid started to analyze within the Spanish capital, and got here to the belief that neither the alleged Salvion circle of relatives nor the Calle Oscura discussed through Iris because the circle of relatives’s place of abode existed. What is extra, the reporter confirmed his acquaintances in Madrid one of the crucial sentences written through the mysterious Lucía – “Now I reside in Budapest, this can be a very stunning town,” i.e. “Now I reside in Budapest, a really nice town”. The locals unanimously claimed that whoever wrote this, he may just be told Spanish from a textbook (at the present time we’d say he used Google Translate), for the reason that sentence sounds as it should be like this: „Now I reside in Budapest, this can be a very stunning town.”

Rip-off or break up persona?

Via then the Budapest police and the consultant of the Spanish Republic in Hungary, Carlos Arcos y Cuadra, additionally investigated within the case with a robust odor of fraud, the Farczády circle of relatives used to be summoned and he used to be interrogated 4 occasions at headquarters. The body of workers of the Spanish embassy showed Az Est’s opinion: the lady speaks Spanish smartly, however in no way naturally, each and every sentence feels like a textbook, and he or she isn’t acutely aware of many traits of Madrid. Psychiatrist Ferenc Völgyesi obviously mentioned, it might not be soul migration, however a break up persona, it additionally became out that the mummy is obsessively non secular, and consistent with her personal admission, she has had an intimate courting with God for two decades, with whom she communicates with the assistance of an angel. He considers himself greater than a human being, even though skeptical, materialistic individuals smile at him, wrote a Hungary day-to-day newspaper.

Írisz and her mom go away the headquartersThe Est / Arcanum Virtual Library

The mum and daughter’s credibility used to be utterly shattered when the detectives Spanish language books had been discovered in the house of the Farczády circle of relatives. The readership used to be dissatisfied to notice that there’s no query of soul migration, and the topic used to be quickly forgotten. Írisz Farczády were given married after the 2nd Global Struggle, had kids, and labored within the design workplace of the Ministry of Smelting and Device Business. Sixty years later, the workforce of a tv documentary discovered the then virtually eighty-year-old woman who he persisted to assert, the whole thing that took place to him within the Thirties is correct and insisted on being referred to as Lucia.

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