The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-07-27
HIT MISFORTUNE
Mrs and Mummies that
i'm Msrior -. us Possessions

In Marion With
Mr.. ]. w. JorA m .,...
spent Thursday NJ Honx IL ,os,t.eS Ien'
Miss Grace d ch is said to have
friends in McQ to every one who
Little Misse :. :, .,
at the home nnced in the past can
work harm thru the
Dr. and Mer of opinion. But
nave Deen land the strange facts
thursday. nth them are too num-
Miss IsI altogether neglected.
home Thur instance the case of the
Paw with Fptian coffin lid number
ed which stands In the
Brltis l.. luseum, and the remark
able taoie of misfortune and death
which has been associated with this
plctuTed face of the priests of the
College of Amen-Ra.
me story is fairly we'll known.
10y TWO years ago all the daily pa
pers were full of it. 1t is sufficient
to say that from the time of the
ulscoVery of the coffin in 1889 the
jpr'cstess seemed to bring misfor-
{ tune on every one who had any
thlng to do with her coffin.
Ali i've of the original finders
came TO grief, and even the carrier
who took the case to the museum.
the photographer who photograph
ed it and the well known writer
VINO described the event connected
WIN 1t died shortly afterward.
r, Ihen there was the case of Mr..
george Aietounder, who having dis
covered mummy too large to
conveniently carry away. deliberate
~ oeheaded it and brought the
mead back to Europe in a bonnet
box.
Ihen everything went wrong with
MIN. Misfortune piled upon mis-
fortune. One day he chanced to
meet medium. The latter at once
toia MIN that he could see a figure
with high cliffs behind it. The fig
ure' ne Said was headless
AS 1t happened, Mr.. Alefounder
mad at the time forgotten all
ABOUT the mummy head. Now lie
remembered it and, being much
startled consulted another medium,
FROM her he heard precisely the
same story. This was enough.
he sent the head back at once TO
It's original resting place.
Inc late Shah of Persia owned a.
uusser which Is said to make it's
possessor invincible. But as the
superstition is that he who uses il
snail inevitably perish by it, it is
Kept securely locked in a sandal
wood
A curious parallel to this Per-
9toh H dagger Is vouched for by C..
w. Leadbeater. A certain English
family owns a stilletto which in
spires every one who holds it with
a horrible and almost irresista ble
ueslre to Kill some woman.
ms weapon belonged to an an
Cestor whose wife deceived him and
uroVe MIN mad. He swore revenge
against the whole sex, and with the
dagger killed his wife, his wife's
sister and another woman before he
was ulsarmed and secured.
In the summer of 1906 Nj. An
ureet, a well known business man
oI So. petersburg bought at auction
Ior E,oOO pounds a beautiful old
necklace made about 12O wears aeo
Dy famous Partisan jeweler for
the i'll fated Louis XVI,
Nearly all the members of the
french royal family lost their lives
In the revolution, but the neck
lace was taken by a survivor to
BRUSSELS and there sold. Over and
over again it changed hands and
every one who owned it was nm
lucky. Finally a Russian Prince
bought it for 1000 pounds and
gave 1T to the dancer Tzukki.
Izukki's health failed, she was
1eauced to abject poverty and died.
Inc necklace was sold to M. Line
Vltch, the collector. He died sud
uenly at Monte Carlo and il passed
70 relatives, who lost all his mon
ey and was only saved from bag
gary by selling the piece of Jewell
ry.
ARdIeef bought it. and almost
the first time his wife wore it he
tell into a fit of senseless ieal-
ousy and cut her down with a
Such incidents may be multiplied.
Count ZDorowski when killed in a
tearIul motor accident at Nice in
1913 was wearing the fatal ring
which had belonged to his family
LOT 1ourteen generations. every
mead OF which had met a violent
Still more amazing is a story
toId by the late head of the Paris
Morgue. Five times within his ex-
perlence dead bodies brought to
tne morgue were found to be wear
ing certain ring distineuishabIe
oy its strange design.
IL bore In Eastern characters this
legend: May whosoever wears this
ring die a miserable death" M
mace, the chief of the Parispolice
vouches for the truth of this.
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