It is your knee-jerk bias that causes you to accuse me of refusing to believe this report. :-)
I don't refuse to believe it. It may very well be true. I have no idea. Is it probable, as written? Well, no... it isn't probable. But in no way would I say it is impossible. Impossible and improbable are very different things. There are a great many things that have been wildly improbable but in the context of history have indeed happened.
In my other posts I think I've even defended the knowledge of the shaman or tribal-elder sort of person who exhibits uncommon wisdom. It doesn't have to be magic. It can in fact be good old-fashioned science developed over generations.
Or, maybe it really is a spiritual connection to God and Angels. I'm OK with that, too.
I'm funny that way. :-)
OK. THX.
But I don't even have a need to see it as improbable. It doesn't jangle my sensibilities or world view at all to accept it at face value as a mostly accurate report of these tribal people's personal and group experiences.
I have found such peoples to be pretty accurate relaters of what happened in a given event--especially one of this nature. If the translators are accurate, then I think, much more often than not, one will get a pretty accurate report--especially if one sticks to behaviors and sequences of behaviors.
Going up to the hills days before an event is a pretty straight forward behavior--easily refuted if one or a handful of people out of 50 were lying.