yep... it's true... but it's too embrassing that's why no article can be found plus it's like a mystery to the american people. The couple did die though because the surgery wasn't a sucess.
OK Here is what The Hmongtoday found out about this story!
LET'S BURY THE RUMORS!
By Wameng Moua
Published Friday, September 29, 2006
Even today in the age of technology and lightning fast communication, rumors (even ridiculous ones) can keep the edge of truth. What’s even more amazing is how far and how believable rumors can spread in the Hmong community.
By now everybody knows what I’m talking about, but let me just bring it up one last time.
Over the last few weeks, a story went around that a husband had caught his wife in bed with another man. Supposedly, the husband had cast a Hmong voo-doo spell, fusing the two together while they were still *uhh, hum…* into each other.
The story then goes that the two were inseparable, even after being admitted into the emergency room at Regions Hospital in St. Paul. Well, apparently because the doctors were not able to separate them, the woman eventually dies.
OK, chuckle now if you hadn’t heard the story before, but our office—as well as the offices at Hmong-Minnesota Radio were bombarded with enquiries about the truthfulness of this story. And I’m not just talking about the old man with no education calling for verification. We got calls from schools, grocery stores and even a doctor’s office.
Had I just heard the rumor from my father, I would have just laughed him off, but because so many people called, some swearing the truthfulness of this story, I just had to investigate.
First I called Regions Hospital. It was embarrassing having to explain that story to the public affairs department over there, but from the way she laughed over the phone, I could tell she hadn’t heard of such a thing at her hospital.
Then, because many of those callers swore they also heard the story on Hmong radio, I called the station and found out from them personally that they had NEVER broadcast the story.
When the story eventually included people reading about that incident in Hmong Today, I knew for sure the story was simply an urban folktale.
Until I can get some names (which throughout the spreading of this story has yet to be revealed) and some contact information, I will have to just say: THIS STORY IS NOT VERIFIABLE and most likely, not true. There, please spread the word.
- Wameng Moua (Editor-in-Chief)