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Date: 10/14/1999 11:06:00 PM
From Authorid: 973
I am a third-generation American whose
grandparents were from Italy. No one in our
family knew Italian or remembered much from the
old country, except my MOTHER used to always say
she was DESCENDED FROM "royalty." Ten years ago,
I asked her oldest sister, who knows the most and
has TRAVELED TO ITALY, about it one day. She said
"there is a little town HIGH IN THE MOUNTAINS OF
NAPLES" THAT BEARS HER MOTHER'S SURNAME,
"LAURITANO"; her grandparents and family line
BEFORE them were the equivalent of BARONS and
their crypts are in the old church. One lady even
shares my first name, but with a different
spelling.
I thought little of this until recently, when I
started DREAMING OF A TERRIBLE, ROUND LIMESTONE
ROOM that was used as a PRISON; once you were put
in there, <I>there was no way out</I>; IMPLIED
WAS THE INNMATES, SPIRITUALLY GIFTED PEOPLE
CONFINED FOR <B>"INSANITY" or "KNOWING TOO
MUCH"</B>, DIED THERE OF TORTURE AND STARVATION.
I had a couple more dreams on the same theme and
was in the process of analyzing them when I
suddenly thought of looking up "Lauritano" in the
search engine. I'd researched the name before,
with nothing interesting resulting. However, this
time I had quite a surprise: The discovery of a
Castle Lauritano in Amalfi, San Larazzo (perhaps
named for <B>Lazarus,</B> who rose from the
dead?). Though not much is known about the
ancient ruins, the dreams made me wonder what
could have gone on there behind those stone walls
centuries ago. |
