This report reminds me hilarious stories about my home country, Guinea in West Africa. China is not the only country where ancient people thought eclipses were a bad omen. So did most African countries, even today, people in the villages gather to pray when ever there is a phenomenon, like an eclipse. I remember, when I was about 9 or 10, there was an eclipse in Conakry and most of the people were scared because they thought something bad was going to happen. And everyone expected an event,like the death of an important and influantial person of our country, but nothing happened...The most hilarious part was when my grandmother and her possies tried to explain to me what an eclipse was, this was thier explanation: "A giant mysterious cat, half blabla and blablabla caught the moon" and if it does not release it, we are all going to die. I was like: "I don't see any cat up there". And my grandmother would be made at me because she thought I was being rude to her friends. You see, in my culture children have to respecte whatever grown-ups say, and my attitude was to make them know if they were wrong, politely. But, in her defense, my grandmother never went to school, she was born around 1914, at that time guinea was a french colony and only few people, like my grandfather, were allowed to go to school. He was, as they say in the USA, a biracial, half french and half guinean. However, I am very proud of my grandmother, because she mastered to write her name and read at the level of a second grader with the help of my grandfather. I miss her a lot in my life, she aws some Lady!
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