Decameron: Fact Check [VI/10]
Fact Check: Did a man in Florida find a feather from an angel’s wing?
Our rating: Likely false.
While the man in question, Friar Cipolla, did claim to have found a feather from an angel’s wing, at the press conference he arranged to present it, he was in able to supply the feather as promised. Instead, when he opened the box the feather was supposedly in, a look of shock crossed his face, followed by a rush of panic. He looked about the room wildly, sweat beginning to bead on his brow. His eyes met those of a known local prankster, who smirked at him. Friar Cipolla turned away from the smirking man and looked back at the box, eyes still wide in distress.
Then, slowly, a look of calm came over him, almost as if an idea had occurred to him. He turned to the audience, a shaky smile on his face.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” he said, voice quivering slightly. “I appear to have made an error. You see, while I did find the feather of an angel recently, I also found the coals over which Saint Lorenzo was roasted, at nearly the same time. I put both of them in similar boxes, and I’m afraid that I brought the wrong box today.” Then he showed the box to the assembled crowd, which was indeed filled with coal and not a feather.
Fact Check: Did a man in Florida find coals from the fire over which Saint Lorenzo was roasted?
Our rating: True
Yep he showed them to us
Decameron is a newsletter recounting the 14th Century set of quarantine tales for 2020. Read the original story.
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