[CPProt.net] The Curse of the Egyptian Mummies

[Lisa Batt]

The "Curse of the Egyptian Mummies" story is of course an urban legend, 
which now has apparently found its way to Bombay, India (the location of 
cybernoon.com).  There was no mummy on the Titanic, nor is the rest of the 
story true.  Per the urban legend debunking website snopes.com, 
"Apparently, this ghost story was originally concocted around the turn of 
the century by two Englishmen named William Stead and Douglas Murray. 
"  For the full story, go to http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/mummy.htm.


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>Curse of the Egyptian mummies
>Ruby Lilaowala | Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:58:42 IST
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>Ancient Egyptian religion was obsessed with afterlife and the Egyptian Book
>of the Dead mentions a pantheon of Gods like Anubis, Osiris, Nephtys, Hermes
>and Iris, who guided souls after death.
>Ancient Egyptian religion was obsessed with afterlife and the Egyptian Book
>of the Dead mentions a pantheon of Gods like Anubis, Osiris, Nephtys, Hermes
>and Iris, who guided souls after death. In the last century, the London
>Times carried the story of an Egyptian queen who was mummified and buried
>inside a pyramid. Millenia later, the 18th century, four rich English ladies
>visited Egypt and one of them bought this Egyptian queen's coffin as an
>antique. That very night, she woke up restless and shivering and walked away
>into the desert, never to be found again. The second lady from the group
>packed the coffin and was killed when her gun accidentally went off. The two
>remaining ladies took the coffin to London and sold it to a nobleman. Within
>a week, the two ladies died in a swimming pool, though both were expert
>swimmers.The nobleman's wife committed suicide along with their only son for
>no apparent reason, as they were a very happy family. Dejected, the nobleman
>donated the coffin to the British Museum where, as it was being unloaded,
>the cart suddenly started, went out of control and killed all the seven
>loaders from the museum. A newspaper reporter went to the museum and on the
>sly, took a photograph of the coffin for a cover-story. Driven insane, the
>reporter jumped from the window, print in hand, and died instantly. The
>coffin was then kept by the curator of the museum in his cellar. When the
>famous theosophist Madame Blavatsky visited his cellar, she immediately felt
>the presence of a strong evil spirit and asked the curator to get rid of the
>coffin. A rich American bought the coffin. One day later, the curator who
>was hale and hearty, died of a massive heart attack. The American sailed
>with the coffin on a huge ship which was supposed to be unsinkable. The ship
>crashed against a giant ice-berg, taking along with it, 1,500 passengers,
>all their luggage... and the cursed coffin. This coffin is still lying at
>the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
>
>The ship's name?
>The Titanic.What is the reason behind the curse of Egyptian mummies? Simple.
>Those who disturbed the tombs of ancient Egypt, whether archeologists or
>robbers, released terrible evil forces into the physical world because
>whenever a body was mummified, it was done under the guidance and protection
>of magic. This magic could be white or black and both have spirit-powers
>which are invoked to protect the tombs and punish intruders. Some of these
>spirit-powers were exceedingly evil, menacing and destructive. They existed
>within the closed tombs for the thousands of years and every such tomb which
>is unsealed, lets out, like a flood, a rush of pent-up, noxious
>spirit-entity upon our physical world to bring about harm and destruction.
>Archeologists have no shield against them since they are invisible and very
>potent. Robbers don't even understand the psychic nature of these tombs and
>have no knowledge to comprehend the serious results of their actions.
>
>http://www.cybernoon.com/


Lisa A. Batt
Univ. of Penn. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology