MYSTERY CASE#11:

The Nature of Mystery

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible"
                                                                                                                          - Oscar Wilde

There are many things that boggles our mind. From the day we were born is a mystery, the world is a mystery, everything is a mystery. Thousand of questions always bother our mind and we ought to find answers with those questions, but sometimes even though we tried everything and had reached the deepest extent of our knowledge its not yet enough. The mystery remains.

Have you ever tried asking yourself about your own existence? or asking where words and languages came from? what our life will be after death or the mystery of past life? Some may say that everything is explainable by science some may say they are not .. hmm if our body is made up of tissues and tissues are made up of cells, where do cells came from? 

According to booksie.com The idea of mystery motivates the production of knowledge, or at least of inquiry. At the same time it signifies the value of knowledge that surpasses human reason and hovers somewhere beyond the limits of current human knowledge. In order to qualify as mystery, "it" (the unutterable) has to remain unknown—or else it becomes something other than mystery.

MYSTERY CASE#10:

Life after Death

Humans are amphibians. Half spirit and half animal. As spirit they belong to the eternal world but as animals, they inhabit time. 

                                                                                                                                     - C.S Lewis

 We belong to a remarkably quirky species. Despite our best efforts, some of our strangest foibles still defy explanation. But as science probes deeper into these eccentricities, it is becoming clear that behaviours and attributes that seem frivolous at first glance often go to the heart of what it means to be human.

MYSTERY CASE#9:

The Green Children of Woolpit

On these days, if I will see children with green unusual skin I would think that it's just a matter of costume for a birthday party or something, I would see them as little hulks or they're one the bastard kids playing with green paint.

But that's not the case in  during the reign of King Stephen (ad 1135-54), two children were found weeping and wandering, lost and forlorn, in the great pits used to trap wolves at the village of Woolpit, in Suffolk. Pretty normal looking children except they were green, and they spoke a language that was unknown to the folk of St. Mary's.

They were taken to Sir Richard de Calne, at Wikes (purely as amusement), but the children once there wept bitterly. They were fed bread and other food but they refused everything even though they were extremely hungry (the girl afterwards acknowledged this fact). Finally some beans that were freshly cut and still had their stalks attached were brought - the children madly tried to open the bean stalks as if they were the pods and thought that the beans were inside - but finding nothing they once again wept. Someone stepped forward and showed them that the beans were in the pods - the children were happy at this and fed on the raw beans with great delight. For a long long time that's all they ate. The boy was extremely unhealthy and died within a year of being found. But the girl grew strong and spent the rest of her life in the area. With time the green faded and she took on the appearance of any other normal "non green" human. She later on married a man from King's Lynn in Norfolk and learnt English.