We, modern people, are sometimes ashamed to be superstitious, to believe in the afterlife and curses. For most of us, belief in a variety of omens and ghosts is expressed maximum in tapping on wood. However, there are facts of damnation, against which, as they say, you cannot argue, and the language does not dare to call them coincidences.
The curse of the Egyptian pharaohs
When the tomb of the Egyptian ruler Tutankhamun was opened, a strange stone was found with a terrible inscription: "Swift as a bird, death will overtake those who disturb the sleep of Pharaoh." Of course, the archaeologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon paid no attention to this. In 1922, Egyptologists announced their great find.
Exactly one month later, Carnarvon died of a mosquito bite, which caused serious blood poisoning. The famous financier George Gould passed away two months after his visit to Tutankhamun. The multi-millionaire Wolf Joel was killed a month after visiting the tomb, and a month later Carter was poisoned. Carter's assistant and secretary did not escape death, the first disappeared without a trace, and the second was found strangled in his own bed.
Curse of Tamerlane
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The most bloodthirsty Asian conqueror Tamerlane (Timur) killed more than fifteen million people.
In February 1941, Stalin personally sent the best Soviet archaeologists to the city of Samarkand, who were to open the tomb of Tamerlane. The locals didn't like this idea very much. Having opened the coffin, archaeologists found an inscription on its inner side: "Whoever bothers me will recognize the invaders worse than me." Everyone knows what happened on June 22, 1941.
By the way, exactly a year later, Joseph Stalin ordered the return of Tamerlane's remains to the tomb.
The Curse of Diamond Hope
French merchant Jean-Baptiste Tavernier stole a 115-carat gem from an Indian temple. In 1669, he sold the blue diamond to King Louis XIV. Exactly one year later, Louis XVI and his wife Marie-Antoinette were beheaded during the Great French Revolution. The cursed stone "floated up" only in 1812 in London. Then it got the name "Hope Diamond", thanks to its new owner - Lord Henry Phillip Hope. Until the end of the 19th century, the Hope family owned the stone, but in times of financial difficulties it was decided to sell the diamond. For some time, the jewel went from hand to hand, and in 1912 it went to Evelyn Walsh-McLean, the youngest daughter of the owner of the Washington Post newspaper. A month and a half later, her son got into a car accident and died, Evelyn herself hanged herself, and her husband spent the last years of his life in a mental hospital.
In 1958, it was decided to transfer the stone to the Smithsonian Museum of History, where it is still located. The postman delivering the box with the diamond was hit and killed by a truck, and two weeks later there was a fire in the house of the deceased, in which his wife and beloved Labrador were killed.
Curse of Tekumse
The 19th century in the history of the United States was marked by violent conflicts between government troops with the indigenous Indian population.
In one of the clashes, the leader of the Shawnee Tekumse tribe was killed. Dying, Tekmuse cursed all future American presidents.
William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia a month after his inauguration in 1840. By the way, it was Garrison who, while still the governor of Indiana, defeated the Tekumse tribe.
Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head in 1865.
James Abram Garfield, elected in 1880, ruled for only 5 months. He died as a result of severe complications after being shot in the back.
William McKinley died in September 1901 of internal gangrene after being hit by a bullet in the stomach.
Warren Harding died in 1923 of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Franklin Roosevelt, during his fourth term as head of the United States, died of a stroke.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy closes this list, he was the victim of a bullet in November 1963.
Probably, after the death of Kennedy, the term of the Tekumseh curse expired.