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La Pascualita or small wedding Pascuala is a dummy that "lives" in a shop window in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico, for the past 75 years. This is quite a long time for the dummy out of the store wedding dresses, but the dummy has a rather strange story. According to legend, the city, La Pascualita is perfectly preserved corpse of the daughter of the owner.
For many years, the history of La Pascualita attracted large influx of visitors, including members of the media, from all over Mexico to Chihuahua. Currently, the store visited by tourists from South America, the US and Europe to personally look at the "corpse" of the bride. People staring, poking their noses into the window display case, looking at the mannequin and trying to figure out whether a real person in front of them or not. They see her gaze and realistic-looking features and facial expressions. Most people leave convinced that it is real, once lived a man.
La Pascualita was first installed in a shop window on March 25, 1930, wearing a dress svadebnoye. The effect was stunning. People, passers-by just could not look away from her this dummy, with wide-set glass eyes, real hair and almost natural skin tone. Soon they realized that resembled a mannequin owner of this store, Pascuala Esparza. After a while, they came to the conclusion that the dummy is actually embalmed body of her daughter, who died recently, on their wedding day, after a spider bite Black Widow. Such a discovery could not remain indifferent to local residents, and they began to express their disapproval. But by the time Pascuala issued an official statement denying the rumors, it was too late. Nobody wanted to believe this statement. Name of the daughter of the owner went into oblivion and was forgotten after many years, but the name «La Pascualita» preserved to this day.
Of course, the assumption of a corpse, of course, accompanied by all sorts of supernatural events, myths, magic. Some strange rumors have been reported, but none of which has not been confirmed. Once said that love with a French magician will come at night and magically lead mannequin to life, having stolen it from.
Some believe that her gaze shifts and follows them throughout the store. At night, it also changes its position near the window. These tales sound intimidating. Perhaps most of all, they appear due sotrudnikamv store who see Pascualita every day. Dummy clothes are changed twice a week behind closed curtains. Sonia Burciaga, an employee working at the store says, "Every time I go near Pascualita cold sweat. Hands mannequin look very realistic and she even has varicose veins in the legs. I believe that she is a real person. " Can be really Pascualita 75-year-old corpse? I was very curious and wanted to see and know it myself.
But although most locals are convinced Chihuahua, La Pacualita is actually a well-preserved corpse, the Internet is full of explanations why this can not be true. Museum of hoaxes, for example, says that "embalming podvlasny not be stored in such a perfect form in the fresh air. For some reason, people tend to think that to keep the body, it is much easier than it actually is, "and a commentator adds: -" Yes, indeed, the internal organs under the influence of an open environment, should start to decompose too quickly, even if you will take measures to stop the supernatural process. Lenin and Mao are under control of specialized terms. Most of the things carried out the funeral home and do it for the purpose of the body to look good before the burial. All this holds for two weeks, after which the process is still the process of destruction of the body occurs. What do you think?
For many years, the history of La Pascualita attracted large influx of visitors, including members of the media, from all over Mexico to Chihuahua. Currently, the store visited by tourists from South America, the US and Europe to personally look at the "corpse" of the bride. People staring, poking their noses into the window display case, looking at the mannequin and trying to figure out whether a real person in front of them or not. They see her gaze and realistic-looking features and facial expressions. Most people leave convinced that it is real, once lived a man.
La Pascualita was first installed in a shop window on March 25, 1930, wearing a dress svadebnoye. The effect was stunning. People, passers-by just could not look away from her this dummy, with wide-set glass eyes, real hair and almost natural skin tone. Soon they realized that resembled a mannequin owner of this store, Pascuala Esparza. After a while, they came to the conclusion that the dummy is actually embalmed body of her daughter, who died recently, on their wedding day, after a spider bite Black Widow. Such a discovery could not remain indifferent to local residents, and they began to express their disapproval. But by the time Pascuala issued an official statement denying the rumors, it was too late. Nobody wanted to believe this statement. Name of the daughter of the owner went into oblivion and was forgotten after many years, but the name «La Pascualita» preserved to this day.
Of course, the assumption of a corpse, of course, accompanied by all sorts of supernatural events, myths, magic. Some strange rumors have been reported, but none of which has not been confirmed. Once said that love with a French magician will come at night and magically lead mannequin to life, having stolen it from.
Some believe that her gaze shifts and follows them throughout the store. At night, it also changes its position near the window. These tales sound intimidating. Perhaps most of all, they appear due sotrudnikamv store who see Pascualita every day. Dummy clothes are changed twice a week behind closed curtains. Sonia Burciaga, an employee working at the store says, "Every time I go near Pascualita cold sweat. Hands mannequin look very realistic and she even has varicose veins in the legs. I believe that she is a real person. " Can be really Pascualita 75-year-old corpse? I was very curious and wanted to see and know it myself.
But although most locals are convinced Chihuahua, La Pacualita is actually a well-preserved corpse, the Internet is full of explanations why this can not be true. Museum of hoaxes, for example, says that "embalming podvlasny not be stored in such a perfect form in the fresh air. For some reason, people tend to think that to keep the body, it is much easier than it actually is, "and a commentator adds: -" Yes, indeed, the internal organs under the influence of an open environment, should start to decompose too quickly, even if you will take measures to stop the supernatural process. Lenin and Mao are under control of specialized terms. Most of the things carried out the funeral home and do it for the purpose of the body to look good before the burial. All this holds for two weeks, after which the process is still the process of destruction of the body occurs. What do you think?
