Mystical curse from the gems

Unhappiness, disaster, death, . is the legendary curse that has roots from beautiful gems. Invite you to consult the mysterious curse coming from the gems below.

Diamonds carry a curse of death

1. Diamond Hope

Contrary to the name Hope, this diamond gives despair to those who own it.
According to rumors, this 'Hope' diamond was found in India's 'Gani' Kollur mine in India in the 17th century, then mounted on a Hindu statue of the sacred Sita goddess. .

Legend has it that the frightening curse hit the 'Hope' diamond, it will cause disaster when taken out of the god statue.

The curse has spread tragedy and catastrophic death not only to those who own it, but even . those who only need to touch it once.

In 1660 - 1661, Tavernier Blue a French merchant who hunted for jewels bought 'Hope' diamonds in India and resold them to King Louis XIV 7.

Later, in the life of King Louis XVI, Queen Marie Antoinette was extremely fond of this diamond.

However, it brought a terrible catastrophe to her husband and wife when they both lost their heads under the Revolutionary guillotine.

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Queen Marie Antoinette is gorgeous with a diamond

In 1902, jeweler Simon Frankel bought "Hope" from a collection of precious stones from an honorable British aristocrat. Soon after, Simon Frankel faced many financial difficulties.

In 1908, Turkish monarch Abdul Hamid bought 'Hope' but only one year later he was deposed from the throne in the 1909 coup.

In 1911, the diamond was resold to Evalyn Walsh McLean. Six years after the possession of 'Hope', Ms. Evalyn, started to run out and continued to face terrible disasters: her son died in a car accident, divorced her husband and daughter died of drug shock.

The diamond is on display at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC, and costs about 250 million.

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Hope Diamond

2. Koh-i-Noor diamond

Koh-i-Noor, called in Persian is 'Mountain of Light' . It is no coincidence that the Koh-i-Noor diamond, one of the most beautiful diamonds in the world, is attached to the crown for British queens.

There was a curse that any man with this diamond had a tragic outcome, only God or women could bring it without punishment.

Only God or women can bring Koh-i-Noor super diamonds. In the 16th century, the first Mughal Emperor Babur, once the owner of Koh-i-Noor, was expelled from the kingdom and exiled.

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Super diamonds only God or women can wear

Babur's successor Shah Jahan placed the "diamond" on the peacock throne at the court and was imprisoned by his son at the end of his life.

King Duleep Singh, after handing over Koh-i-Noor to the British, received an allowance of £ 50,000 per year, but also died in poverty between the capital of Paris. rate in 1893.

To date, Koh-i-Noor 'super' diamond member is owned by Queen Elizabeth II. It is well preserved in the Tower of London as part of the Royal Family's collection of jewels.

3. Delhi purple Sapphire

Delhi amethyst stone was brought to England by a Bengal cavalry colonel named W. Ferris. From the day he was holding the stone, this officer suffered from a career and his health was completely broken.

After he died, he left that stone to his eldest son, as if it were a "treasure of life".

Unexpectedly, only a short time later, the eldest son, who was doing business well, suddenly lost his fortune, the rest of his life lived in poverty and illness.

By 1890, W. Ferris's son gave the stone to Heron Allen. Immediately, his family suffered.

Twice he gave the stone to two curious friends, one of them had to return it because of the constant calamities falling down, and the other - a famous singer at that time suddenly lost his voice and did not Can sing anymore.

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The strange phenomenon of amethyst Delhi is the stone that carries the devil's curse

By 1904, feeling that he could not stand it any longer, he decided to bury this right cursed stone so tightly, that no one could see it and told his children to only take that stone after he died 33 years.

Keeping his father's advice, 33 years after Heron Allen's death, his daughter gave the stone to the Natural History Museum - where her father worked when he was alive, along with a letter Heron Allen's warning: ' Anyone who opens the box first needs to read this warning: My advice is to throw the box with the stone into the sea'.

Seven years ago, a former library director named John Whittaker decided to bring the strange story of the stone to a symposium on the life and career of Heron Allen scientist Heron Allen Society.

After the first conference ended, on the way back, suddenly the sky and sky were dark.

The couple suffered a terrible thunder. Rain does not stop, continuous lightning hit each time a big, a fierce. Afraid of something bad that happened, he had to leave the car on the road.

He and his wife ran to the hideout to seek refuge. Frightened, trembling, his wife shouted: 'Why are you carrying such a strange thing?'.

The disaster continued, and on the exact night before the second symposium, he suffered a fatal appendicitis pain, with early detection, bringing him to the hospital for surgery.

And yet, at the third conference, he could not attend because of kidney stones. He had to go into surgery for the second time.

4. Ngọc La Peregrina

Ngoc La Peregrina, attached to the curse of Love , is one of the largest pearls in the world. In Spanish, the name pearl means "pilgrimage" or "wandering".

It was given to Queen Mary I by King Philip II Spain before marriage, but the queen was abandoned and died in 1558.

In 1969, Elizabeth Taylor was given this pearl by her husband on Valentine's Day. They were married and divorced twice. And Taylor since the jewel has been married 8 times.

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5. Diamond of Black Orlov - Brahma's eye

Black Orlov diamonds, found in India in the early 1800s. According to legend the diamond was stolen from the Brahma statue - the Hindu god at a temple in South India.

Then the Russian princess Nadezhda Orlov bought. The rumors of the princess and the two others using Black Orlov all jumped to the floor.

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Diamond Black Orlov

6. Diamond Blue sky

Blue Diamond is considered a very mysterious gem, do not know whether it exists or not. But it has been associated with mysterious stories.

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Blue Diamond

Legend has it that in 1989, a Thai man guarded the palace of the Egyptian royal court stole this diamond and sold it to Thailand.

Later, many Egyptian diplomats were killed, causing officials to fly to Thailand to investigate the case and call it the Blue Diamond case.

7. The beetle with jade and the deadly curse

The tomb of young king Tutankhamun was discovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1992 in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. This is one of the few intact Pharaoh tombs when excavated.

Buried with mummies are rich and precious ornaments, among them a golden-green jewel shaped like a scarab beetle 2.5cm long on a necklace of pearls.

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Those who possessed the jewel suffered from the Pharaoh's frightening curse: 'Those who dare to disturb the Pharaoh's sleep must die!'

The scarlet beetle of King Tutankhamun with the curse " Those who dare to disturb the Pharaoh's sleep must die!".

After being removed from the tomb, the jewel beetle was stolen. Later, it was brought back to the homeland by a South African naval spirit.

The curse of the jewel begins to experiment when the soldier drowned in a sea trip. Soon, his daughter also died of white blood disease.

Horrified by the calamities that plagued the family, the navy soldier's wife sold the beetle with jade to another South African woman.

But the daughter of this woman also died of leukemia, and her husband died abnormally the night before the gem was sold.

Finally, out of fear, the South African woman decided to hand over the scarab beetle to the government.