“I had been there before and had never seen this statue, but the guide said it had healing powers. We joked about it but I put my back on the statue and felt a strange sensation in my legs.” Ms Goldsworthy thought nothing more of the sculpture until leaving for the next leg of her holiday. She said: “We were in Banbury, on the way to Stratford-upon-Avon, and I suddenly found I could walk at a normal speed and stand up straight like I used to. We stopped somewhere else and I was half-running down a grass bank!”
The mother-of-two had not felt such improvement in 30 years of taking painkillers to ease what she called the “torture” of her condition, which meant even walking was at times agonising. For another six weeks she was free of pain and only now feels the discomfort returning – albeit less severe than before. I hope to go back and have another go,” she said. “The painkillers make good sleeping pills but are not all that effective. I wonder whether other people have felt anything from touching the statue?”
Paul Kincaid, a faith healer’s son who sculpted the statue, was thrilled to hear Ms Goldsworthy’s story. He said: “It’s fantastic. This is the first I’ve heard of it healing anyone but it’s quite extraordinary. There is a long tradition going back hundreds of years of things like this in Wales.”
4 comments:
I'm glad she is feeling better. That statue is going to put a lot of doctors out of business
Wait a minute. The guide told the statue had healing powers, but the artist who made the statue told this was the first time he'd hear it healing anyone. Someone's making something up.
Is this a marketing ploy for the garden to get more visitors and the woman is paid to do this, or is she a sincere woo woo believer and this is a happy coincidence for the garden and also for the artist? Either way, the garden and the artist are going to be making more money because this. It's depressing.
The garden and the artist and his "faith healer" father, too. Sigh.
The placebo effect is amazing.
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