Argentine President Christina Fernández de Kirchner has just espouse a 21 - year - old man as her godson . This is a tradition that dates back more than a century , and it ’s to forbid the stigmatization of a family ’s seventh son — who , according to legend , turns into a werewolf - like demon . Update : This has been expose .
Image : Wikipedia , Woodcut of a werewolf attack , by Lucas Cranach the senior , 1512
The puppet , el lobison , was say to reveal itself after the son turned 13 . Upon switch form , it would purportedly feast on dead flesh and unbaptized babies . And anyone who got bitten would inherit the jinx .
As the Independent newspaperreports :
Fear of the lobison was so rife in nineteenth Century Argentina that some family abandoned or even murdered babe boy – an heinousness that sparked the strange Presidential practice session of adoption , aimed at stopping the deadly mark .
Starting in 1907 , the tradition was formally establish by a decree in 1973 by Juan Domingo Peron , which also extended the praxis to baby girls .
Even now , report card of domestic dog - like creatures attack livestock continue , as does the custom .
Seventh sons or daughters — now much rare than 100 year ago — gain the President as their prescribed godparent as well as a gold palm and full educational erudition .
The young valet de chambre , Yair Tawil , is the first member of a Jewish family to be “ adopted . ” As part of the jubilation — described in tweets to the her 3.4 million Twitter following — the president participated in the lighting of a Hanukkah menorah .
Update : This widespread story today is seemingly false — seventh sons and daughters are eligible to become the godson or god - girl of the Argentinian prexy , but this has nothing to do with any werewolf custom . More details over at our sis site Gizmodo .
https://gizmodo.com/sorry-argentinas-president-didnt-actually-adopt-a-jewi-1676130946
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