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The legend of the flaming dog of the monastery of El Paular

All the peoples have their legends and these are usually based on facts that occurred so long ago that it is impossible to verify whether they are true or not.Behind them we always find data that is historically true but that They have been deforming for very varied reasons.In Mysterious we have seen Japanese, Mexican legends...from all corners of the planet! This time it is Madrid : The legend of the flaming dog of the monastery of El Paular .

The legend of the flaming dog of the monastery of El Paular

The monastery of Santa Maria del Paular was founded in 1390 as a Carthusian monastery in the town of Rascafria in the Community of Madrid.

The legend of the flaming dog of the monastery of El Paular

Like the monks of many convents, those of El Paular opened their doors early in the morning and gave alms and food to the poor who approached their church.For centuries that was a habitual practice since that there was no official institution to deal with the elderly and disadvantaged.After performing this service, the doors closed until the next day.It happened that one day one of the beggars seemed to have fallen asleep, when the doorman monk went to wake him up he saw that he had died .Not knowing what to do, he went to talk to the prior, they wanted to bury him in Christian, but the rules of the Carthusians forbade the burial of anyone outside his order in his cloister .Despite that, the prior decided give Christian burial between its walls .

The legend of the flaming dog of the monastery of El Paular

Once buried, the monks retired to rest waiting for the next call to prayer. The bells rang that each Monk had in his cell and when they left the cloister they saw in the lunar clock that it was an hour earlier than usual .Someone was wrong.The next day and for several more, the bells rang an hour earlier The prior, angry, decided to hunt the joker and hid a few monks, armed with sticks, in an area of ​​the cloister near the point from where they they rang the bells of the cells.When the time came, the ambushes saw a huge beast , similar to a gigantic dog, wrapped in strange flaming lights .I ring the bells and ran to the tomb of the beggar getting into the bowels of the earth.

The legend of the flaming dog of the monastery of El Paular

The abbot thought he was the spirit of the beggar who had died in sin and not He wanted to be buried in sacred ground.He was dug up and thrown into a nearby pool .When the monks moved away, there were some terrifying howls.From then on every night he heard howling from the pool.The monks decided to do some masses for their soul and say that from that moment I can no longer hear.Other versions of the legend say that if you are near Santa Maria del Paular at 10 p.m., even the howls of the flaming dog are heard .

It is currently a Benedictine abbey that can be visited and it is in a privileged natural environment.Maybe you have the luck (or not) to see and hear the flaming dog.If you like post with legends, you may want to know the Scottish legend of the Minch's men.

Images: Tamorlan, Miguel303xm, Bill Benzon

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