In my city, Girona, Spain, a horrific crime
just happened, a 'good and absolutely normal man' according to his
neighbours and all who know him, decapitated his own daughter of13
months, while his elder daughter was asleep in the adjoining room.
Neighbours saw and heard him yelling at the top of his voice in the
balcony 'The Devil ... The devil ...' This man seemed to lead a normal
family life taking his 2 daughters for walks and had never at any time
in the past caused any kind of trouble to or with anyone.
His
screaming at the balcony led some neighbour to call the police, who
had found him still screaming 'The Devil ...' when they arrived, and
reported that he put up an incredible resistance, with such unusual
strength as if he was really possessed by the devil. It needed several
strong lawmen to restrain him.
Does
Devil really exist? Throughout the history there had been diverse
interpretation of this figure. The most general conclusion is that it's
the personification of the bad spirit of a person. Another is that the
devil is the rebellious angel in combat with the good angels to capture
the human soul. The fact is, nowadays few people believe in angels or
devils any more, not as good or evil beings but good or evil thoughts
and conducts.
The
exorcism of the past is substituted by the consultation of
psychiatrists and psychotherapists. It's true the bad and evil exist in
the human conduct, but that is the result of a defect of construction
of the person and his life, or of a circumstantial mental or ethic
crisis. Or driven by revenge. When we now say of someone as 'the poor
devil', what it signifies is to say the poor unhappy or unlucky
guy/gal.
Is
it possible that the 'good, normal family man, loving father' who
killed his own daughter in such a barbaric manner really heard the voice
of the Devil, ordering him to chop his daughter's head off? I inclined
to guess that this man had suffered a lot; so much that he had just
cracked, losing his mind and senses for a moment ... and is most likely
still suffering, perhaps more so now than before the brutal act. He
will continue the suffering even more should the experts of the mind
achieve restoring the lucidity of his conscience.
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