The life of princess Helena

As early as 3000 years ago in Egypt, a princess named Amanra died, and her body was mummified according to the custom of ancient Egypt and buried in a grave beside the Nile. 1at the end of 890, four young British people came to Egypt. Local smugglers sold them an ancient Egyptian coffin containing the mummy of Princess Amanra.

After some discussion, four Englishmen decided that the richest of them would buy mummies for thousands of pounds. Since then, this unknown princess in ancient Egyptian history has brought a series of bizarre and terrible bad luck to many people.

The Englishman who bought the mummy took the coffin back to the hotel. A few hours later, no one knew why, but the buyer left the hotel for no reason, walked into the nearby desert, disappeared from sight and never came back.

The next day, one of his companions was shot and seriously injured in the streets of Egypt, and finally had to have his arm amputated.

The remaining two people also suffered bad luck. Among them, 1 person went bankrupt without cause after returning to China; Another 1 person became seriously ill and finally sold matches in the street.

The mysterious mummy was later transported back to England, but strange things kept happening along the way. After it was shipped to England, a wealthy businessman who loved ancient Egyptian culture bought the mummy. However, the bad luck is not over. Soon after, three family members of the wealthy businessman were seriously injured in a bizarre car accident, and his mansion was also burned down. After such a change, the wealthy businessman had no choice but to donate the mummy to the British Museum.

Before entering the British Museum, the magic of Princess Amanra had begun to appear. In the process of transporting mummies into the museum, the truck lost control and injured an innocent passerby. Then, when two freight workers carried the princess's coffin into the museum, the coffin accidentally fell into the stairwell, injuring 65,438+0 workers' feet, while the other 65,438+0 workers died two days later without cause in complete health.

However, the real trouble has just begun.

Princess Amanra's coffin was later placed in the Egyptian exhibition hall of the British Museum. During the exhibition, the night guard reported that knocking at the door and crying were often heard near her coffin. What's more, even other antiques in the showroom often make strange noises. Soon after, the 1 guard died while on duty, scaring other guards to resign collectively.

Because strange things kept happening, the British Museum finally decided to put the mummy in the underground storage room.

Facts have proved that all this is in vain, because the next victim died inexplicably before 1 week passed. This time, it was the curator who decided to send the mummy to the basement.

At this point, the cursed mummy became famous. A newspaper photographer went deep into the basement and took some photos of mummies, but found a terrible face in one of them.

Later, no one knew what the actual situation was, except that the photographer was found dead in his home the next day, and the cause of death was shooting himself.

Soon after, the British Museum gave the mummy to a collector, who immediately invited Ravac Keefe, the most famous witch in Europe at that time, to exorcise the mummy. After a complicated exorcism ceremony, Mrs. Ravac announced that the mummy had "a lot of amazing evil energy" and said that it was impossible to exorcise the mummy because "the devil will always exist in her body and there is nothing anyone can do about it." Finally, Mrs Lavarch gave a piece of advice to collectors: get rid of it as soon as possible.

However, at this point, no museum is willing to accept the mummy of Princess Amanra, because in the past 10 years, 20 people have suffered misfortune and even lost their lives because of her.

However, the story is not over. Not long after, an American archaeologist who didn't believe in God ignored Princess Amara's terrible history and bought her at a considerable price, and planned to put her in new york City.

19 12 in April, the new owner of Princess Amanra personally escorted her and put her on a huge ship that caused a sensation in the shipbuilding industry at that time. For the sake of prudence, he also placed her near his master's room, hoping that she could arrive in new york safely. However, as we all know, the Titanic sank.

(There is this story in "Terrible Coincidence", Central Translation Publishing House, the second edition was first printed in March 2007, with 34 pages)

Note: I read this story on a website and commented that the story was full of loopholes, which was extremely inconsistent with the time and history at that time. So infer that the story was created by the two brothers, don't take it seriously! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The mummy that brought bad luck told a mysterious story. The mummy of a princess named Amanra in ancient Egypt was bought by four British young people in Egypt at the end of 1890. These buyers all suffered misfortune. After it was transported to England, the collector's house had a car accident and his house caught fire. Collectors had to donate it to the British Museum, and the disaster spread to the museum, and many people related to it fell ill or died. So the British Museum had to give it away. This person invited "the most famous witch in Europe at that time, Mrs. Lavacchi" to exorcise the mummy, but the witch was helpless. Anyway, it is said that 20 people were unlucky or even died in 10.

At the end of this article, the story reached its climax. 19 12 In April, the mummy was sent to new york by a huge ship carrying 1500 passengers, which sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Of course, everyone speculated that the ship was Titanic, and the article seriously hinted whether the mummy of Princess Amanra was the cause of this disaster.

If you look up the theme of "Amen -Ra Princess" on the Internet, you can find that the English version of this article is also widely circulated, and the Chinese version is basically its translation. Like all similar sensational mystery novels, this article vividly describes everyone's unfortunate plots, such as "being shot seriously and finally having to cut off his arm", "being reduced to selling matches in the street", "falling from a coffin in the stairwell and crushing 1 worker's foot" and so on, which can really be called "each has his own misfortune". But strangely, with so many unlucky guys, the author seems to know the situation very well. There is no name of the party in the article! We only saw four young Englishmen, a wealthy businessman who loved ancient Egyptian culture, an innocent passer-by, two deliverymen, 1 guard, a museum curator who sent the mummy to the basement, a newspaper photographer, a collector and an American archaeologist who didn't believe in evil.

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It is wrong to say in the article that there is no name. After all, there was a "Lady Ravac, the most famous witch in Europe at that time". Compared with the English version, the Chinese translator left out a B for the witch's name, and her full name should be "Mrs Helena Boravac". This Boravac lady does exist in history. She died of influenza in London on May 8th. 189 1. So the only person who can trace the story revealed the stuffing, and she could do nothing to exorcise the mummy in the story-if the mummy was really bought by the four young people at the end of 1890, the collector's relatives had an accident, his house caught fire, and the messy things that happened in the British Museum, Mrs. Boravac probably wouldn't live to exorcise the mummy. Besides, the exorcism in the story Soon, the mummy was transported on the Titanic, but the only voyage of the Titanic was in April of 19 12, when Mrs. Boravac had died for ten years. If she climbs out of the grave again, I'm afraid it won't be her turn to exorcise evil spirits, and she will be driven away as an evil spirit. Ten thousand steps back, if what happened around the mummy before Mrs. Boravac tried to exorcise evil spirits in the article happened before May 8, 189 1 year, it seems that in the next ten years, before it was shipped to Titanic, the mummy stayed quietly, and no one was unlucky because of it, which really doesn't conform to its "character" in the story.

"At that time, the most famous witch in Europe (Bo) Mrs. Lavacchi"

What's the truth? Let's take a look at this "Princess Amanra" first. Her English name is Princess Amen-

Ra. It should be noted that Amen-Ra is generally translated as Amen-Ra. Amen is an invisible god in Egyptian mythology. At first, it was just a local god in Thebes. In the new kingdom of Egypt, he was promoted to be the king of gods, the father of Pharaoh and the creator of the world by combining with the sun god Ra.

Sexual images appear. A God will have a priest and other attendants, but there will be no "princess". The so-called "Princess Amenra" is probably a misunderstanding of "the priestess Amenra".

In the British Museum, there is indeed something related to the "Mon-La priestess", but it is by no means a mummy, but a painted inner coffin cover, which is 162 cm long. According to its shape, the British Museum determined that it belonged to ancient Egypt from the late 2/kloc-0 dynasty to the early 22 nd dynasty (about 950 BC to 900 BC), which was more than 500 years later than the so-called BC 1500 in English stories, but it was barely consistent with the Chinese version of "more than 3,000 years ago".

Amunla

The portrait on the coffin lid shows that its owner is a woman, and the text on it is a short religious prayer, but it does not describe her name and identity. The quality of the coffin is quite high, and the deceased should have a high status in society. Maybe she played music in the sacrificial ceremony of the Temple of Amenra before her death, so in the early records of the British Museum, she was described as "serving in the sacrificial ceremony of Amenra", without saying whether she was a priestess at all. But all these speculations about her identity have no conclusive evidence. As for the mummy under the coffin, it is probably left in Egypt. Anyway, the British Museum has never collected this mummy.

In fact, there is neither a princess nor a mummy in this matter. Only this "Amanda" is not too crazy. So "Princess" and "Mummy" in the title of this article have to be quoted.

This inner coffin was provided to the British Museum by the original Tibetan Mr. Arthur Wheeler in July 1889 (earlier than the legendary four British youths arrived in Egypt). Because the provider doesn't know its origin, he naturally knows nothing about the legendary disaster in the story. As for the Titanic, Charles Haas, chairman of the Titanic Historical Association from 65438 to 0985, consulted the cargo list and cargo hold map on the Titanic. There is no record of mummies, mummified coffins or coffins, and there is nothing that seems to be confused with these things.

Since everything in the story seems to be false, how did this widely circulated story come into being? At first, it was related to two Englishmen, William Stead and Douglas Murray. Sted is a famous liberal journalist. He is notorious for writing an article in the newspaper about how he bought a thirteen-year-old girl for five pounds to prove how easy it is to buy a child prostitute. He believed in mysticism and spiritualism, often consulted fortune tellers to understand spiritual power, and also ran publications in this field. As for Murray, people do not know much about him. It is said that he is an "Egyptian archaeologist", and it is this person who transported the "Mummy of Princess Amanra" that I did not know where to find to England. God knows if he really has these skills.

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William Stead

The two of them made up a vivid story about a mummy being transported to England and placed in the home of an acquaintance of theirs. According to them, everything that could be broken in the house was broken the next morning. Mummies are moved from room to room, and the same thing happens every time. Did the mummy arrive?

Everywhere it went, its owner suffered misfortune. Soon after, they visited the British Museum and saw the coffin, so they made up another story. The face on the coffin lid showed pain and fear. The mummy in the coffin belongs to a painful soul, and now she has come to this world with bad luck.

They told the story to reporters looking for exciting news, and then the two stories were mixed together and widely circulated. Murray died in 19 1 1. In April 19 12, 12, William Stead himself boarded the Titanic and went to the United States to attend the peace forum convened by President Taft. On the boat, Steed did not change his nature and told the passengers his mummy story. On April 15, he sank with the Titanic. A few days later, a shipwreck survivor told the story of Sted and Murray's mummy in an interview with new york World. As a result, all these things were piled together, and finally they became mummies and sank with the Titanic.

The more stories spread, the more versions there are. The story about the so-called "ominous mummy" described on the website of the British Museum is slightly different from what we saw in many details. In some versions, it is said that the mummy did not sink to the bottom of the sea, but was rescued by the Carpathian with the survivors and arrived in new york quietly. There it was haunted for a while, and then its owner took it to Canada and sent it back to England from there. It boarded the Queen of Ireland from Quebec City to Liverpool.

1965438+On May 29th, 2004, the Queen of Ireland was sunk by a Norwegian coal carrier, killing 840 passengers. 1980 after an investigation on the sinking of the Titanic failed, the participants vividly described that the mummy was on the sinking ship and wanted to bring disaster to all those who disturbed its peace. However, when Titanic was filmed, people went to the sunken ship again and didn't hear about any disaster until the film won the Oscar. And if it finally sank the Queen of Ireland, I don't know how it got rid of it and ran back to the Titanic. I won't be too surprised if I hear about this mummy's new "adventure" in the future, such as the rumor that it was in the plane that crashed into the building when the 91kloc-0 terrorist incident occurred in New York World Trade Center. The world will never be short of mystic fanatics like Stead and Murray.

In fact, the painted coffins have never left the British Museum except 1990, which was temporarily exhibited in Australia, let alone boarded the Titanic. Apart from being collected for security reasons during World War I and World War II, it has been meeting tourists. If you are interested in ancient Egyptian culture and have a chance to go to London, don't forget to go to the British Museum, where there is the Rosetta Stone that champollion deciphered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs (actually pinyin), and then you can drop in and see this coffin.

The one in the photo of this article. It is in Hall 62 of the British Museum, that is, Hall 2 of the Egyptian Pavilion, numbered EA22542.

Is this it?