Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Marsal Sanches

  • Butterfly day

    Marsal SanchesBismarck, North Dakota, United States He did not believe that a black butterfly was an omen of death. It was just some old superstition he remembered hearing from his Brazilian babysitter many years before, sort of a South American banshee. Someone would see a black butterfly inside the house and, a few hours later,…