Tuesday, May 29, 2018

DOCS: The Girl Who Cries Blood

Twinkle is a 13-year-old young lady from the northern Indian city of Lucknow. She experiences an unnerving and so far undiscovered condition: for almost two years, she has sobbed tears of blood. Twinkle likewise unexpectedly seeps from her head, hands and feet. The adolescent's Hindu neighbors and nearby fans of the Goddess Kali trust she's controlled by an anxious soul. Others think her strange ailment is reminiscent of 'stigmata': an appearance of the injuries endured by Christ amid his last days and torturous killing. All through the historical backdrop of the Catholic confidence, a little more than 300 individuals have purportedly guaranteed to be stigmatics – the dominant part of them