Hello and welcome back to The Most Amazing Channel on the Internet, I am your Host Rebecca
Felgate and Today we are talking about the Top 10 Cursed items you should never look
for.
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10 - Basano Vase
Nobody knows where the Basano Vase is now, thankfully!
It is at the centre of some pretty dramatic Italian Folklore.
The story goes that the vase was made for an Italian wedding as a gift to the bride,
who was to be wed in a traditional ceremony in Napoli.
On her wedding night, she was murdered and she was found bleeding and clutching the vase.
The legend has it that she promised to return and seek vegence.
After her death, the vase was passed down through the family, but anyone who came into
contact with the vase mysteriously fell upon serious misfortune.
Following that, the vase was wrapped up and packed away, but unfortunately it was unearthed
again hundreds of years later in the late 80s, when it started making headlines for
continuing its spate of deadly bad luck.
Newspaper reports indicate the vase was later buried in an undisclosed location, hoping
it will stay out of the way of human contact.
9 - The Dybbuk Box
This infamous wine cabinet is said to be haunted by the spirit of a holocaust victim and provided
the inspiration for the 2012 movie The Possession.
The box was famously sold on ebay in 2003 and has spent the past 15 years bouncing between
owners who do not want it as each owner has fallen on horrifying misfortune.
One owner suffered a stroke after receiving it as a gift.
Apparently the box has now been hidden by Jewish Rabbis.
8 Greco-Roman Cursed Tablets
Back in Greco-Roman era, so 332 BCE to 395 AD, it was very popular to curse tablets!
These were texts scratched on little sheets of lead.
These were then thrown in wells, buried in graves, hidden in walls etc.
They were intended to cause harm to specific people, for example one unearthed in London
on display at the British Museum says “I curse Tretia Maria and her life and mind and
memory and liver and lungs mixed up together, and her words, thoughts and memory; thus may
she be unable to speak what things are concealed, nor be able.”
These little curses have cropped up all over the place!
Over 200 have been found in the UK alone.
While the curses were intended for specifc people for specific wrong doing….who actually
wants to dig up an ancient curse?
Not me!
7 - Muramasa Swords
Muramasa was said to be an excellent ancient Japanese Swordsmith in the 1500s.
He wanted his swords to be the perfect weapons, so he asked the gods to instill them with
special powers, which they did…only they made them blood thirsty and drove whoever
wielded one crazy.
Japanese folklore calls the swords cursed, and there are very few of them surviving today.
That being said, there are still a few of these ancient relics out there.
Some find their way into exhibitions, but I many people avoid them like
the plague.
6 - Busby Stoop Chair
Do not go looking for the Busby Stoop Chair in North Yorkshire.
As much as I love North Yorkshire, You don’t want to be getting all cursed up and stuff
while you are there…that would really ruin your enjoyment of a pie and a pint of good
ale.
To cut a long story short, this chair was a guy named Thomas Busby’s favorite pub
chair….and I totally get that!
Unfortunately, he got tied up in some bad business and murdered a man.
When it came to his arrest, he was in his favorite pub chair and when he was arrested,
he was more concerned about losing his favorite pub spot.
After he was hung, the story goes that anyone who sat in the chair befell grave misfortune.
The most recent death was in 1978, when the pub owner had enough of the misfortune that
came from owning the hundreds of years old cursed item, he gave it to the Thirsk museum.
5 - The Haunted Ebay Mirror
In 2013, a haunted mirror was sold on ebay for 100 pounds.
Student Joseph Birch and his flat mates started experiencing weird goings on when their landlord
hung up the mirror he found in a skip.
The listing warned that the item, despite being a beautiful grand Victorian mirror,
was possessed.
Birch said that he had woken up with scratches over his body after the mirror was hung and
that he and his room mates had started to see dark shadows and flickers in the mirror.
In the listing he wrote: I have never been particularly superstitious, but just being
around this mirror gives me the creeps and makes me feel sick to my stomach.
'I would ideally like it to go to somebody who has experience with the paranormal or
supernatural and knows what they are getting themselves in for.
4 Maori Masks Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand
and their masks are thought to contain the souls of warriors who died in battle.
While most people are okay touching a maori mask, legend has it you shouldn’t seek one
out if you are pregnant or menstruating as you can become cursed.
3 The Black Orlov Diamond
Unlike the more famous cursed Hope Diamons, the Orlov Diamond is still in circulation!
The Hope Diamond lays in a musem, where it can’t hurt people, but the black diamond,
formally called the Eye of Brahma Diamond, is still out there, now split into several
pieces of jewelry.
The reason for the misfortune tied up in the jewel is because, as its original name hints,
it came from the eye of a statue of the Hindu God Brahma, and was stolen by a monk.
BAD monk!
In 1932, Diamond Dealer JW Paris was ecposed to the diamond for a while, leading him to
jump off a sky scraper in New York.
Later, two Russian Princesses who owned the diamond consecutively jumped to their deaths
in the mid 1900s.
In a bid to break the curse, the diamond has been cut into several pieces and is now a
brooch and a necklace.
One of the pieces was offered to actress Felicity Huffman, but she refused to wear it.
2 Undisturbed Egyptian Mummies
The Curse of The Pharaohs seems to be pretty legit – as many archeologists have found
out over their time.
If you have learned anything from history, I would say that you should know never to
go looking for any Egyptian Mummy.
One of the most famous examples of the curse of the Pharaohs comes form those who opened
King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922.
Lead Egyptologist, Lord Carnarvon died six weeks after opening the tomb, as did a further
7 people on the dig.
Reportedly, another archeologist on the dig received a paperweight containing a mummified
hand, which one, ew, and two, it had an inscription that read Cursed be he who moves my body.
To him shall come fire, water and pestilence – apparently the person who received the
weight, Bruce Ingram, had his house burned down, followed by a flood after it was rebuilt!
There are still plenty of undisturbed tombs out there…just, don’t go looking for them.
1 William Shakespeare’s Grave
Apparently documentary makers in Stratford Upon Avon plan to investigate William Shakespeares
Grave, so long as they don’t physically disturb it.
The world famous playwright’s grave is inscribed with a curse that promises to rein doom on
all that touch it.
The documentary makers are dicing with death as they want to 3D scan the tomb….who knows
how curses react to tech!
I personally would stay away, who knows what kind of bad lack disturbing the bard will
bring.
SO that was the Top 10 Cursed Items You Shouldn’t Look for …