McGinnis Cross - Relic or Fraud?

[potsherd_creek]

It was like a little game we played in the small one room classroom.
35 kids, 2 different grades.

The teacher whispered something in the first child's ear.

That kid passed the message to the other.

By the time it got to the end of the 35 different versions.

Let's say it kind of resembled the original message but had many twists and turns, including subject matter.

This is how fables/stories are created.
It grows, gets a little more exciting to hold the interest of the ear.

By the end it is nothing more than a cow floppy.

I remember, we did the same thing in school. The sad part of society are the ones who take the tail end part and believe it, give their own take and pass along as fact.

 

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[n2mini]

I have no way of knowing if the cross is old or not, but do know that 100's of years ago you had people making fine jewelry, beads, buttons etc.. It wouldn't be out of the realm for someone back then to have made something like it, or even with more detail for that matter..

 

[Spanish Spinach]

It was like a little game we played in the small one room classroom.
35 kids, 2 different grades.

The teacher whispered something in the first child's ear.

That kid passed the message to the other.

By the time it got to the end of the 35 different versions.

Let's say it kind of resembled the original message but had many twists and turns, including subject matter.

This is how fables/stories are created.
It grows, gets a little more exciting to hold the interest of the ear.

By the end it is nothing more than a cow floppy.

In France, we call this "le téléphone arabe," which informally refers to the rapid spread of news by word of mouth, often with the information being distorted or exaggerated along the way.