Of course its just the local superstition, in quite some detail, but what struck me was the voice. "It is believed"... and it reminded me of something discussed by Slavoj Zizek relating to deferral of religious beliefs. He talks at length in his argument that it is possible to believe through another, and that this is a characteristic of belief but not knowledge, but one of the anecdotes is so closely matched.
"According to a well-known anthropological anecdote, the "primitives" to whom one attributed certain "superstitious beliefs," when directly asked about them, answered that "some people believe…", immediately displacing their belief, transferring it onto another."
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