THE MIRACLE
Ricardo J. Méndez


A weird character is getting some attention in the news 
lately.  It is a person that seems to have stigmata that 
match those suffered by Jesus Christ in the cross, according 
to Catholic Mythology.  The man, one Jacobo Lewis from
Haiti, seems to have injuries on his hands, feet and side that 
match those famous wounds.  These wounds keep bleeding, but
apparently never get infected.  People are told to have healed
after he touches them, specially those with blood diseases, 
although none have been documented.  Also strange is the fact 
that Jacobo is 30 years old, the same age Jesus was when he 
started preaching.

What has the religious community in an uproar is that Jacobo 
is black, and definitely not a Christian but a practicer of 
voodoo.  He says the wounds were inflicted on him by the 
Loa of his tribe,  as a reminder of his human frailty and so 
he could spread the word.  His tribe has been gaining 
followers, and seem to be bound to gain more in the future.


Possibilities


1) Jacobo is, of course, a fake.  The people he has been said
to heal are healed by their own faith, just as a lot of people
get sick when they believe they are.  Most likely those people
weren't even sick on the start.

2) The man from Nazareth was an avatar of the Crawling Chaos.
The reason why we don't know anything about his life from 
his early years until his 30, is because at that point he
hadn't been contacted by the Nyarlathotep, and therefore wasn't
important.  The Black Man tried to recruit him when he is said
to have been tempted in the desert, but he went mad believed he
was the Messiah.  Given his newly found powers, that wasn't 
hard to do.  Now, more than 1900 years after that, Nyarlathotep
is willing to try again with a son of mortal woman.  Jacobo
might dream about "past lives", which are previous avatars, and
by those means the players can find out the truth.  His stigmata
is a mean that  Nyarlathotep uses to both confuse the general
populace and tease those with some more knowledge.

3) The Loa did contact Jacobo, and inflicted the wounds. 
Unfortunately for him and his honfour, the alleged Loa 
is a vampire, too week to fully return from his resting place.  
He was in life a sorcerer, and is trying to attract a cult to 
the place.  Then he will control Jacobo to slaughter the all, 
so with the strength given by their blood he may return to his
unlife.


Copyright (c) 1996 Ricardo J. Méndez
rmendez@sheertalent.com