There are many legends about the so-called damned things, including works of art that supposedly bring troubles and misfortunes to everyone who comes into contact with them. Today we will tell you about the most famous of them.
Crying boy
This painting was painted by the Italian artist Giovanni Bragolina, working under the pseudonym Bruno Amadio
On September 4, 1985, the British newspaper "The Sun" published an article that told the story of the couple Ron and May Hall of Rotherham, South Yorkshire. The Halls claimed that their house was almost completely burned out during the fire, leaving only a cheap reproduction of the painting "Crying Boy" intact.
The article also cited comments from Ron's brother, Peter Hull, who worked in the local fire department, and his colleague Alan Wilkinson, who said that they often found reproductions of "Crying Boy" in the fires.
This is how the legend arose, which said that the presence of this painting in the house increases the risk of fires. There is also other evidence. So, one of the readers of "The Sun", Rose
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Farrington Preston, reported that after she bought a reproduction of the "damned" painting in 1959, her husband and three sons died. Another reader wrote that he deliberately tried to burn the reproduction, but it did not burn, although it spent more than an hour on fire.
Martyr
This terrible painting, which depicts a suffering man with his mouth open in a soundless scream, lay in the attic of the Robinson family's house. Sean Robinson more than once heard from his grandmother that the artist who painted the picture was mentally ill. Therefore, he mixed his own blood into the paints. Shortly after the work on the canvas was completed, the artist committed suicide. Also, grandmother said, when the picture hung in the house, it was restless - at night someone could hear voices and crying, and she also saw a human shadow with her own eyes.
When his grandmother died, Sean decided to hang the canvas in the house. After that, the devilry began: Sean's son fell down the stairs, as if someone had pushed him. The wife felt someone invisible stroking her hair. All family members also heard crying at night and saw the shadow of an unknown person. The camera installed by the owner of the house captured strange phenomena: the door slammed by itself, smoke appeared from somewhere, and the fatal picture somehow fell from the wall by itself. In the end, Robinson took her to the basement. Despite everything, he still refuses to sell it.
Bassano vase
According to legend, this beautiful silver vase was a wedding gift. The young Neapolitan woman, to whom he was presented the day before the wedding, was found dead that very evening, with a vase in her hands.
For some reason, the girls did not get rid of the vase. Over the years, it has been passed down from generation to generation as a family heirloom. And everyone who got it suddenly died.
In the end, apparently, someone guessed that the artifact was dangerous. The vase was discovered in 1988. She carried a note with the words: "Beware … This vase brings death."
However, the vase was put up for auction and sold for $ 2,250 to some pharmacist. He knew nothing about the curse. Three months later, the new owner died. The vase changed several more owners, and all of them one by one overtook an untimely death.
Arpo mirror
It is an antique mirror in a massive gilded mahogany frame with the inscription “Louis Arpo, 1743” engraved on the bottom. It was said about the master of mirror affairs Louis Arpo that he was engaged in occultism and attends sessions of spiritualism.
The mirror has been resold several times, and it is reliably known that several of its former owners died of a stroke, and several more disappeared without a trace. In total, 38 victims have been killed by the ominous mirror to date.
The first victim was probably a Greek banker named Kyrakos. In 1769 he carried a mirror as a birthday present for his sister. However, Kirakos never appeared at his sister. A few days later, the carriage with the gift was found in the forest. The banker himself and his coachman disappeared.
Then the mirror went to 23-year-old Laura Noel, who soon died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Then the artifact seemed to mysteriously ended up in the estate of the Marquis de Fornaroli near Paris. On September 10, 1943, the Marquis summoned guests, among whom were high-ranking Nazis … The wife of the Marquis, in the midst of the feast, went up to her bedroom - and never went downstairs. When the alarmed husband went up to the second floor, the marquise was not there. In front of the pier glass lay an open lipstick and powder box, a pearl necklace and one of the Marquise's shoes, an overturned chair was lying … And there were nail marks on the wooden panels framing the mirror!
The unfortunate marquis was never found. And the mirror was taken by Hauptsturmführer Franz Schubach, who was interested in mystical artifacts, and taken it out of the country.
Many versions have been put forward about the killer mirror. One of them says that a mirror can reflect light rays in a certain way, which affects the human brain and leads to a stroke. In addition, mirrors in the old days were covered with amalgam with a high concentration of mercury. And this is detrimental to health. True, it would take at least 5-10 years to bring an amateur to look in the mirror to death.
But what about disappearances? This is where mysticism comes in. Paranormal researchers suggest that all the disappeared have moved to a parallel dimension on the other side of the mirror glass …