On October 8, 2023, a Georgian-language Facebook user shared a post regarding a muslim who allegedly killed his wife in Egypt because of reading the Bible. According to the post, the woman was buried with two still-alive daughters, one of whom was an infant, the other – 8 years old. The Facebook post claims, it turned out kids remained alive and were nurtured below ground by Jesus for 15 days before being rescued from graves. According to the post, Egypt was outraged over the incident. After committing the crime, the man was sentenced to death.
Same story was published by the exclusive news in 2018.
There is no evidence supporting the claim that two kids were buried alive in Egypt and they were found alive after 15 days. The photo accompanying the text reflects the Statue of Mother Shipton and doesn’t have any connection to the claim.
The claim that a man killed wife and buried two kids alive in Egypt was disseminated in the past as well. The american fact-checking platform – Snopes debunked the story in 2007. According to Snopes, there is no news report about the story even though the claim says Egypt was outraged over the incident.
As for the photo accompanying the text, it reflects the Statue of Mother Shipton, which is located at Mother Shipton’s Cave, Knaresborough.According to the story,Ursula Sontheil known as Mother Shipton was born in 1488 to 15-year-old Agatha Soothtale, allegedly in a cave outside the town of Knaresborough in North Yorkshire. She is considered as England’s most famous Prophetess. Nowadays, people have the opportunity to visit a cave in England, where she was born and the historic forest in which she grew up and lived.
About the source:
Facebook user Levan tavdishvili regularly posts false anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian information as well as conspiracy theories.
Ulviyya Karimova Shahin
Myth Detector Laboratory
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