From the fantasticreality group:
--Mike
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From: [email protected]
Date: Thu Apr 5, 2001 6:03pm
Subject: Mr. Badthing
George, I found this material, which I assume was your source?
Sounds like a classic UFO abductor, Underworld abductor, or
"faerie" abductor. Note the "wand" or torch with magical or even
paralyzing powers. Also note the reference to the intrusion into
the abdominal cavity, along with "grabbing the entrails," and
correlate that to the Brazilian mutilation victim and the autopsy
details.
When queried, he pointed to a crevice in the ground and
indicated that his home was "below!"
Very interesting.
--Mike
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From:
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/cdv/rel.htm
Cabeza de Vaca's
Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
[1542]
Translated and Annotated by Cyclone Covey
CHAPTER 35:
The Story of the Visitation of Mr. Badthing
THE AVAVARES and the tribes we had left behind related an
extraordinary experience which, in our equivalent of their vague
way of counting, seemed to have occurred fifteen or sixteen
years before.
They said that a little man wandered through the region whom
they called Badthing [MalaCosa]. He had a beard and they never
saw his features distinctly. When he came to a house, the
inhabitants trembled and their hair stood on end. A blazing brand
would suddenly shine at the door as he rushed in and seized
whom he chose, deeply gashing him in the side with a very
sharp flint two palms long and a hand wide. He would thrust his
hand through the gashes, draw out the entrails, cut a palm's
length from one, and throw it on the embers. Then he would
gash an arm three times, the second cut on the inside of the.
elbow, and would sever the limb. A little later he would begin to
rejoin it, and the touch of his hands would instantly heal the
wounds.
They said that frequently during the dance he appeared in their
midst, sometimes in the dress of a woman, at other times in that
of a man. When he liked, he would take a buhío up into the air
and come crashing down with it. They said they offered him
victuals many times but he never ate. They asked him where he
came from and where his home was. He pointed to a crevice in
the ground and said his home was there below.
We laughed and scoffed. Indignant at our disbelief, they brought
us many whom they said had been so seized, and we saw the
gash marks in the right places [self-inflicted?]. We told them he
was an evil one and, as best we could, taught them that if they
would believe in God our Lord and become Christians like us,
they need never fear him, nor would he dare come and inflict
those wounds; they could be certain he would not appear while
we remained in the land. This delighted them and they lost much
of their dread.
The same Indians told us they had seen the Asturian and
Figueroa with people farther along the coast, whom we
designated "those of the figs." [What Cabeza de Vaca knew of
the latter, whom he mentions one other time, he must have
learned from the Avavares and possibly Castillo and Dorantes
(who had more extensive experience of the coast), but he could
have encountered some of them in the prickly pear thickets. By
"fig," as Hallenbeck suggests, he could well have meant the fruit
of the "strawberry cactus" or pitaya (Echinocercus), some of
which he surely ate in that region.]