People who miraculously escape death are said to be "spellbound". Indeed, there are many conspiracies that supposedly allow a person to avoid death, but practice proves that they are not particularly effective.
For example, it was said about Emelyan Pugachev that he was a sorcerer, spellbound from a bullet, a knife, poison and other dangers. However, all these conspiracies did not prevent the executioner from depriving Pugachev of his violent head.
But the most famous conspiracy was the Swedish king Charles XII. According to legend, a certain witch made him almost immortal. Karl could only be killed with an object that belonged to him. Charles XII was shot in the temple on November 30, 1718. According to legend, the fatal bullet that took his life was made from a button from the king's uniform.
This “bullet button” has been kept for many years in a museum in the town of Varberg in western Sweden. Over time, the belief in conspiracies from bullets somehow subsided, but people who, by a happy coincidence, avoid death, are often called conspiracy. Of the famous politicians, the reputation of a conspirator was acquired by US President Gerald Ford.
Only in September 1975, he survived two assassination attempts and both times, by a lucky coincidence, escaped danger. On September 5, 1975, Lynette Fromm, a member of Charles Manson's gang, jumped up to him with a pistol. When the security officers grabbed her, she repeated in a frenzy: - The gun did not fire, did not fire!
They examined the pistol and found it misfired when From pulled the trigger. On September 21, 1975, Sarah Jane Moore, a leftist activist, tried to shoot Ford. This time the gun did not fail the terrorist. But a moment before the shot was fired, police officer Oliver Siple hit her on the arm - the bullet went down and ricocheted into a random person. But Ford remained unharmed.
Gerald Ford passed away at the age of 93 and became a long-liver among American presidents. However, the most conspicuous among politicians is undoubtedly the Cuban commander Fidel Castro. His life was attempted 637 times. The CIA is said to have spent $ 120 million on attempts to eliminate Fidel. What the CIA did not do to eliminate him: sent snipers, mined cars, tried to poison food, cigars, fountain pen, scuba gear and even disguise a bomb as a seashell in the place where Fidel was engaged in scuba diving.
In 1978, for two million bucks, he hired a kamikaze who was supposed to dive on a plane with explosives into the window of Castro's office. Nothing helped. Fidel Castro turned out to be the most alive of all. But the Cubans know what the secret of the invulnerability of Commander Fidel is. They say that once upon a time the high priestess of voodoo from Haiti gave him a charmed amulet with dried blood and the crushed tongue of an African sorcerer who wards off all troubles from him.
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Not everyone manages to find out - is he spoken from a bullet or not? Basically, only the military, militiamen and bandits have to check this on themselves. And some of them have indeed gained a reputation for being spellbound.
Here are just a few stories. Several years ago, the press described an unusual crime story that formed the basis of a criminal case, which investigators dubbed the "Rasputin case." The details of this story were very much reminiscent of the circumstances of the murder of Grigory Rasputin. As Prince Yusupov, it featured an honored master of sports in water polo, who was named Sergei Kuptsov in the article.
After completing his sports career, he opened his own cafe. But instead of profit, it began to bring losses. Merchants got into debt and here, very handily, a certain Nikolay Sobinov, a former boxer convicted of rape and possession of weapons, offered him financial assistance. Sobinov was by no means an altruist; he promised Kuptsov to pay off his debts only on the condition that he would re-register his ownership of the cafe.
True, as a compensation, he promised that he would still be able to eat free of charge at this catering point and he would regularly receive a share of its profits. Sobinov not only did not hide his belonging to organized crime, but also boasted of it. In essence, he trite Kuptsov, and when he realized this, he decided to take the cafe back into his own hands.
One evening, when Sobinov was traditionally having a meal in a cafe with a friend, suddenly they both felt bad: they had a headache, and felt drawn to sleep. They went into the back room, sat down on chairs there and immediately passed out. Soon Sergei Kuptsov entered the back room with his son Artyom. First, they beat the unconscious lads well, and then shot them. Each was stabbed in the head with a bullet, and for loyalty, Sobinov was given a control shot in the mouth.
Then they wrapped the corpses in cellophane and stuffed them into the freezer. After that, Kuptsov senior left in the late Sobinov's Mercedes to hide it in a safe place, and the younger decided to have a snack after the labors of the righteous and sat down at a table in a cafe. But all his appetite was gone when he saw who was entering the hall. And Sobinov himself entered there. After being in the refrigerator, his face was deathly pale, and the bullet holes and blood made him just terrible. But at the same time, the deceased swore very clearly and dirty.
When Artyom's numbness subsided, he rushed out of the hall faster than a doe. And when the cafe employees came to their senses, they rushed to help the owner. He was hastily washed, bandaged and taken by taxi to the hospital. True, before going to Sklif Sobinov ordered to take him to church. And in the hospital, doctors were incredibly surprised at his vitality. They removed two pieces of lead from his skull and darned a hole in his back. It turned out that the "control" bullet, fired into his mouth, went right through the collarbone. A month later, Sobinov was already completely oklem and was discharged from the hospital. So he turned out to be luckier than Rasputin.
This story happened back in socialist times. Traffic police officers, Captain Vaclav Beksha and Lieutenant Viktor Verbitsky, stopped a Zhiguli with four men in the cabin for a check at an intersection in the city of Druskininkai, Lithuanian SSR. The men turned out to be bandits returning from a robbery. They aroused suspicion among the traffic cops, and they invited them to follow them to the regional department. The men tried to bribe the police, but they showed adherence to principles.
Then, frightened of exposure, the bandits shot Verbitsky, and then settled on the unarmed Beksh. First they beat him and then dragged him into a police car. Having driven her away to a secluded place, the criminals fired twice at Vaclav, and then threw a stick of dynamite into his car, after which they drove off in their Zhiguli. An explosion thundered, parts of a police car were scattered within a radius of hundreds of meters. The remains of the car and clothes on the shell-shocked Beksha caught fire.
Overcoming the pain, he managed to get out of the car and, rolling in the snow, put out his clothes. It remains only to wonder how the beaten, wounded, shell-shocked, burnt and frozen Beksha managed to overcome about a kilometer through the forest before reaching human habitation. He held on and did not lose consciousness until the moment when he told the policemen who had arrived, the signs of the criminals.
Meanwhile, the criminals have already managed to leave the territory of Lithuania and hid in the Kaliningrad region. But soon they were tracked down and detained. During the arrest, two of them were shot, and the rest chose to surrender. They had two machine guns, three pistols, three sawn-off shotguns, several grenades and dynamite sticks. And Vaclav Beksha survived, the doctors said that he was born in a shirt.