Filipino Judge Assisted By Magic Dwarves

[Niall114]

Full story here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/5261856.stm?ls

News in Brief,

a Judge in the Phillipines has been sacked, and lost his appeal to the Supreme Court; because he claims 3 magic dwarves "Armand", "Luis" and "Angel" helped him give Healing Sessions in his Judicial chambers.

 

[James_H]

They have been following this on the cabinet of wonders blog, in these entries:

Dwarves of law

and

Dwarves of law revisited.

These links are dead (as is the Cabinet of Wonders site that contained them).

 

[EnolaGaia]

The MIA webpages cited in post #2 can be retrieved from the Wayback Machine:

Dwarves of Law

https://web.archive.org/web/2007021...a/index.php?/archives/313-Dwarves-of-Law.html

Dwarves of Law Revisited

https://web.archive.org/web/2007102...p?/archives/373-Dwarves-of-Law-revisited.html

 

[James_H]

There's a fairly detailed wikipedia page about the judge in question, Fiorentino Floro.

It would appear that filipino belief in Duwendes pre-dates the Spanish arrival in that area, but took on the Spanish name.

 

[ramonmercado]

I bet he gave short sentences.