Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE " ' minim lwv mi jT iimi i n hi mUHWWxoia f inn iiiiiiipi 11 iniiiiiii iiimun SUNDAY MORNING irrormur 4in V X j: JANUARY 9 1938 1 3 " 5 "Latins Are Lousy Lovers" 'Twas Said - But Happenings inT Nicaragua T- - Show That Sweethearts Are Geniuses at 0 'Vis 4x ' ' " Inn Ill MKIWH III IKlillllnini innmiiii iiliii enorite Gmclen Tomntea TTpon the Bd Berid Manifested Itoelt Hera MaMgTiaM Ca ilnm ' iiiiiiiiiiiiimi iiiiiii t M ' Which She Said Her Goblin " ' ' ' ( MANAGUA NICARAGUA has made wan and shattered countless homes throughout the the ages made the world go round since long before the dawn of civilization but never in recent times HE - :l - C t V guan equivalent of a banshee or chaun would set upon them and haunt their days believed that for the last six months the girl bad been followed by the spirit which In addition to making merry around the cemetery grounds had clairvoyant powers and an uncanny musical ability The girl first began telling her parents of ihe spirit thTt was cWtantly bothering her while they lived in a country district near Managua They moved to Managua to get her away from It and her mind off it At one time she lepre- - ' yS ff 1 S lf-'-i:- I lilt' 1 Wk tf Rtvli MADE 1JM By Special yCorreipoadent Courtship Under Difficulties i 7 i ' 'V t Jilifil v con-suit- ed authorities f Mi Y !! fl - "ffA about getting rid of - Slrli 7 M 3ft I STY - 4- f IP M IJ 19 V t 4JUL MN Ixd of What " xn niunvAn Was Really Going ' It on In the Managua Cemetery has Dan Cupid played queerer role than that assigned to him In this tropical Central American country For here among the superstitious natives whose aboriginal cunning could teach the sophisticates a trick or two the Blind Bow Boy has been "dealing in a rare "new kind of spiritualism raising ghosts in jungles and cemeteries rapping tables and tinging bells and all just so that lovesick swains and maidens might carry on tneir courtsmps unmolested It should be explained that with all close-mouth- its illiteracy and social backwardnessr Nicaragua is one of the strictest of na- tions from a moral viewpoint and if the young lovers of Managua and elsewhere have resorted to tricks that would do justice to a Keller a Houdini -because their tMraThurstonritls only parents have refused ' to let down the bars for such modernities as nocturnal petting or Because t takes a good deal of credulity to swallow It whole this story should start with the day a few weeks ago when dispatches were sent out from here to newspapers all over the world reporting a Managuan story that a mysterious monster was ransacking graved in the Cemeterlo Neuva de las Dellclas del Vega It was de scribed as a gorilla — "woo-pltchln- g" HThemitonr-iiaturally-ttracted-a- tion abroad because such antics are alien to the nature of even the most savage gorillas Queries from ' newspapers abroad for more details Insti tuted checkups during which there developed the even more startling infor- aUon-th- at thrintroderwasna o-— Torrentes rita Nicaraguan belle who lives in a little house on the outskirts of the cemetery Graclella Superstitious present-da- y nations and forgot about it until the Torrentes' house began to attract throngs Then they decided somebody had found an easy way to collect money ' most Nicara-- 1 guans descendants of folk who never strayed abroad after nightfall for fearfairies or demons or the Mana- lundreds-o- f personshai Hockedto the house to learn their futures from the strange goblin or spirit In a darkened room They found the spirit an asute business man insisting that he could not tell their fortunes unless each placed a sum of money on Graci- - a good and scratching but that of the ghost-lik- e goings-o-n the cemetery were the monkey-shine-s of young lovers using the cemfor a rendezvous Due to the sub- etery terfuges practised by the young people of Managua to defeat the strictness of tfcieir parents been In- the superstitious have such a frame of mind that makesandthem disposed to believe pertains anything everything that : spirits and goblins One morning a short while agd for example the bells of a local church called all the parishioners to mass The usual time for the early morning so people too poor summon! is 5 aJ to own clocks or watches went obedonly a little iently to church perhaps ' sleepier than umiaL They suspected nothing wrong until they reached the church doors found them closed and roused a sleepy sexton who told them it was only a few minutes after two o'clock in the morning Most of the faithful churchgoers waited out the threelhours firmput in a eye-witne- ss One story of the goblin's powers was that one Mr Orosco who besought the aid of the spectral in recovering a stolen revolver was told that It was taken when a sweetheart made a clandestine visit to the sister who lived with Mr Oros-c- o It was Mr Orosco's first knowledge that his young sister had a sweetheart 's and the message made life extremely uncomfortable for both Miss ly believing the 2 a nv Ororco and her sweetheart a miracle -- ordained- by - Heaven Then the local newspaper "La Neu Only one young lady in all Managua va Prensa" established that there had knew the truth — her lover had clam- — bered to the belfry and rung the bells been a smaTrfeml8Tnonkey-runnln- g to provide an excuse forher to leave loose in the Cemeterlo Neuvo's confines and she had turned on one of her her home and meet him for a clanpursuers swarming all over him and destine rendezvous This was only one example Girls who by custom are strictly guarded Induce by their families frequently in Latin American coun their tolovers 'tries build up superstitions The result Is twofold Sometimes it keeps timid souls at home and prevents them from witnessing amorous trysts and other times it gives the girls a chance to meet their lovers while a supposed turn fammiracle or a goblin's pranks mind-read- dead-voice- er "bell-ringi- ng a -y— tgj and neighbors "confirmed" Graclella's story of her goblin indicated to lnvestiga- trtrm that thA 1ranr1 rtf th ernat in — the— cemetery was a widespread one j indeed t4 Whatever Graclella's motives it is generally ' believed that young and boys of her acquaintance girls or at least of her neighborhood took Prevent Its advantage of the avidity with which Women from Having -- K-sn t her"protection!L Piwfii--rmmfffTfolks' swallowed— the— yamthe4Pold However The spirit loved music it appeared Careers n foster it in every possible degree to for he often asked to be soothed with One of Its Most BeauI There is no doubt that the net re-- i — sul nitingnitrains anroirxccamoirtwangeor tiful Senorltas Auh of --apparitions- which -out a tune or two on a guitar himself J lovers conjured (with sheets or filmy — -w v In addition to the donations all he gusta Montealegre n 1 mi m in mnri white apparel tor example) when " asked was that all visitors be kind to (Above) Is a Dentist cemetery passersby threatened their U S SWEETHEARTS CANT PET HERE Graclella If they didn't he was likely a Graduate of a was to reduce the district to privacy to resort to violence hurling stones of terror and awe and to make a state University In Famous la the In Davlo Park Strict Shown Above Se Lovesick Chaperonage Managua and otherwise threatening' the offend-ththe cemetery a safe place for clan— ——Months Prefer the "Haunted" era with bodily harm: Cemetery for "Pitching Woo1 — — destine The Ideas Don't now of Nicaragua tT?A(ofiAT - iiitiillil Mi 111m : at Copyright a on Senor Escoria whom he called unfortunate man up' around speak Senor Escoria the researcher took- - a healthy awing at it with his stick Unhappily the blow fell upon the girl "This of course caused to the goblin who turned angrily sulting names" said an the attention elsewhere ilyThe rapidity with which friends slnaldJor lan at all but a particularly mischiev- ous goblin Said goblin it appeared beTxctuslve-confldanteor-8en- the plaguy spec They put ner ' tre down as a sufferer from halluci I ill " beating sort-ra- w These and many other things investigators learned about Graclella's goblin Not from Graclella herself for she was on the subject nor from the goblin but from scores of superstitious friends and relatives who had the stories at their fingertips The spirit was quoted as having said his name was Panchlto Castillo and to have professed being madly in love with the girl whom he hovered near in order to protect The spirit manifested himself only at night It appeared and bespoke his messages In a sort "of" whistle One Rafael Tobias Escorcla was credited with having visited the Tor- rentes dwelling in a mood of scientific Inquiry with a thick stick In hand When in the darkened room of Seno-rit-a Torrentes the goblin began to 1938' ' V -- Newsp Y -Jl Love-Maki- itory A¥ ?XV22tM4H® 7onths Intent Upon Making the Cemetery a Safe Place for Clandestine In Strict and Superstitious Managua Made It Appear to Be "Haunted" In peartng Amerlesn M WWi$ giving This Mll |