5 Famous Curses from History

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[@AngryHistorian87]

Here’s another alleged curse that was scarier than that of king tut. This was the curse of Timur (Tamerlane). In 1941, soviet archaeologists opened the tomb of the Turco-Mongol warlord. However, there was a supposed inscription which states: “whoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I”. Two days after Timur’s tomb was opened, the Germans invaded the Soviet Union. After Stalin found out about the curse of Timur, he ordered that Timur be buried with full Islamic rites. After that happened, the battle of Stalingrad ended in victory for the Soviets.

[@lloyd4956]

That's pretty bad ass tbh. La Ilha Allah Al Rajoon..

[@scottdoesntmatter4409]

What the HELL does Timur have to do with Islamic ANYTHING?

[@AngryHistorian87]

@@scottdoesntmatter4409 he was Muslim, actually.

[@scottdoesntmatter4409]

@@AngryHistorian87 Who was a Muslim?

[@AngryHistorian87]

@@scottdoesntmatter4409 timur was.

[@emmarichardson965]

I am a simple woman: I see a screenshot from The Mummy, I am clicking on the video without even looking at what it's about. 🤣

[@robo5013]

Lord Carnarvon was in a near fatal car accident in Germany, he loved driving fast and sponsored car races. He was advised by his doctors to spend his winters in a dry location as the wet winters of England could cause him to easily become ill due to injuries he sustained in the accident. This is why he spent so much time in Egypt and why an infection from a mosquito bite, exacerbated by him cutting it while shaving, quickly turned into pneumonia.

[@librarianontheloose]

Howard Carter really out there doing the "There are two things I know about white people: they like Matchbox 20, and they are terrified of curses." Parks and Rec story line.

[@toddmeiers]

Ha ha, but no matchbox 20 thank you ,lol

[@purupumpkin]

“Not because I’ve been cursed by him” girl you make me laugh 😂 If curses are real that explains the state of the British economy right now

[@AnCoilean]

My favourite curse is the Mayo Gaelic Football curse. In 1951 Mayo won the All Ireland Senior Football Championship. The team were heading home from Dublin and passed a funeral. The team continued celebrating and singing on the bus and the priest put a curse on the mayo team saying as long a member of the team was still living Mayo would never win an All Ireland. Since then Mayo made ten All Ireland finals and lost all of them sometimes in weird ways, like the time they scored the first recorded own goal in inter county Gaelic Football history and then the second one in the space of five minutes.

[@willow7109]

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[@CinziaDuBois]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@AlisonKenzoland]

I too am delighted that the algorithm dropped me at your doorstep

[@hammeroferis9805]

I think you're hilarious. I'm also often the only one in the audience that laughs at the funny parts of Shakespeare.

[@thebigd9989]

You are so nice to your doggie such lovely intro is appreciated ♡ wonderful video once again, thank you

[@jessicarose3510]

Found you in my suggestions page, your voice is amazing! So calming too. Great information

[@barbaralaibuta7710]

Ooooh I like curses! And the best ones are old Slavic “curses” from old ladies when you get on their nerves 😊 the “might the devil use your backbones as a ladder” is my favourite so far. Or the curse of Jelka (last bride of one of the “barbaric” invaders of Europe)

[@justinwatson1510]

Perhaps it takes time existing in the afterlife to build up enough power to make deathbed curses start working? I am also not surprised that furniture in a place where people get drunk would also be the last furniture someone used before dying.

[@addie.86]

Glad I stumbled across your channel I’m watching your videos and they’re all very well made and interesting ! Would love to see another curse video especially on one of my fave curse, probably fictional but with real deaths: the grand master of the Knights Templar Jacques de Molay cursing Philip Le Bel king of France and his descendants from his execution pyre as famously written in Michel Druon’s famous novel Les Rois Maudits

[@marklaurenzi1609]

I enjoyed the background music. Thank you!

[@Garbeaux.]

I’ve seen both King Tut’s death mask in Cairo and the Hope Diamond at the Smithsonian. Both were absolutely breathtaking but I was able to fully appreciate the Hope Diamond unlike Tut’s mask. There were so many people trying to look at Tut’s mask, take pictures with it, or have it in the background of a pic left everything chaotic. It was moved to a different place so I hope now it will be less congested but doubt it. The Hope Diamond had many looking at it but it wasn’t congested. Social media was still in its infancy when I went to DC. It was full blown when I was in Cairo. I’m sure that explains a lot.

[@SpaceMonkey15]

Could you please cover The Crying Boy, a painting believed to cause fires? The explanation is pretty simple and hilarious. Maybe do an episode on cursed paintings in general, actually? Looking into this, there's apparently a lot.

[@amandahealey2216]

Yes! I also heard that there was a painting that made people ho insane!

[@nightmarefanatic1819]

I've actually heard of Busby's Chair! When I was a kid I was watching an episode of Unsolved Mysteries about the chair, probably the thing I remember the most from the entire show. I especially remember a dramatization of a guy that had sat in the chair after it was roped off to mock the curse, wrapping the rope around his neck to mimic Busby's death, only for something to compel him to suddenly pull the rope so tight he strangled himself. It freaked me out. Thinking about it now I'm kinda shocked my mom let me watch the show with her.

[@lluviathewolfgirl]

I remember it from unsolved mysteries too! Theres reference to it in hetalia too, which makes me laugh every time.

[@idk-jy6cc]

You're my new favorite channel im glad I found you 😭💕

[@CinziaDuBois]

Wow, thank you!

[@winterburden]

Thank you for sharing these neat curses Cinzia!

[@budwhite9591]

Wow. Idk how I stumbled upon your channel. But very nice. I will have to check out more. And you’re so cute and your accent 😍. Omg.

[@TheEdmond30]

the channel that makes you smarter by an average of 8% net

[@happytofu5]

The chair was featured in Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, its interesting to see how much they strayed away from the actual story. They basically just kept "there was a cursed chair" and made up the rest.

[@julietfischer5056]

Are we surprised?

[@TheOldDragoon]

Commander Riker wouldn't lie, right?

[@barjamlin7962]

Fabulous video, as always. I’m looking forward to the darker video.

[@brigittem2231]

Thank you for your channel!! I really really feel like I'm with my people when listening or watching ❤❤❤

[@CinziaDuBois]

I'm so glad!

[@janeyrevanescence12]

One of my college friends whose family had a lot of park rangers (friend is now a ranger himself) and one of his uncles worked at a national park in Hawaii (I forget the name of it) but was a sacred site to Pele (the Hawaiian goddess of volcanos and fire). It's believed that people who take the volcanic rocks from this volcano have been cursed with bad luck. This uncle didn't believe in curses when he started. But one of his first jobs at this park was to sort through the pile of boxes (we're talking by the truckload) full of rocks with letters from people who took the rocks (despite being warned by signs everywhere) and were plagued with all sorts of misfortune like houses burning down, fatal car crashes, terminal illness diagnoses, bankruptcies, etc. So they'd send the rocks back in hopes of appeasing Pele. By the time this uncle celebrated his first anniversary with the service, he thoroughly believed in the curse.

[@jimbrittain402]

That day is good that brings a new offering from Cinzia!

[@RobAGabor]

I grew up in McLean, Virginia, which was named for Evelyn McLean's husband. In 1962, First Lady Jackie Kennedy made a trade with France whereby in exchange for the US getting the Mona Lisa to display for a short period of time, France would get to display the Hope Diamond. In 1963, of course, Mrs. Kennedy died very publicly.

[@AfuraNefertiti]

This was fascinating

[@Tehbestestevasss]

Oh thank god. I love the video videos. I'm glad they're back

[@FreakishFiend]

I would love this to become a series!!

[@Randaed]

Is it weird that, as an American, I'd heard of almost all of these? Really cool to learn that the Hope diamond curse story came after the Wilkie Collins book and not the other way around. I'd assumed the book was inspired by the diamond. I only read it last month, coincidentally. Another kooky curse to look into is Blucifer, a giant equestrian statue at the Denver International Airport that "killed its maker." The art choices at DIA are strange, to say the least. They had a giant statue of Anubis for a while, which is just lovely to have the Egyptian god of death looking over you as you launch into the sky at high speed in a tin can. Anyway, if you look up Blucifer, prep your eye bleach ahead and I apologize.

[@goma3088]

Very familiar with Blucifer, having passed by it many times but only recently learned that it had an official name. I've always just called it the demon/devil horse. Not sure who decided that the horse, already weird for being blue, needed to have red eyes. Didn't know about the Anubis statue though.

[@Randaed]

@@goma3088 Anubis was only temporary while the King Tut exhibit was at a local museum, but I felt he fit the general vibe nicely. Blucifer's official name is the very uncreative "Blue Mustang," but nobody actually uses that because Blucifer is clearly superior. Seriously though, if you look up closer images of him, you'll find that Blucifer is very detailed and highly unnecessarily anatomically correct.

[@maryeckel9682]

The Moonstone is a book that rewards forging through the inherent racism to find a good yarn with a great twist ending.

[@crabsoap]

Loved this video! It'd be lovely to see a video on the history of witches if you haven't already done that :)

[@CinziaDuBois]

I will!

[@vanyakalinka8305]

the Busby chair story was spoopy amusing XD

[@CojoneSordo]

The thumbnail is everything

[@alma4037]

Your content is so well done! Thank you :)

[@CinziaDuBois]

I appreciate that!

[@joaovilaca88]

New video so it's time to open a bottle of red wine, enjoy and relax. Thank you for your amazing work

[@CinziaDuBois]

Thank you too!

[@nicholaswhitman4620]

If theres one thing that can make me shake with anger its the destruction of artifacts.

[@nicholaswhitman4620]

(There are a lot of things but that's not as rhetorically interesting)

[@steampunkpixie2643]

I had heard of the first 4 but the last one was new to me.

[@julietfischer5056]

Only heard about Tut and the Hope Diamond.

[@Gojirosan]

I've been cursed to adore Cinzia!

[@lorihenrytaylor4438]

Fermented kinda works, too!

[@backstabingpike]

Thank you 🦄 really fun video

[@CinziaDuBois]

Glad you liked it!!

[@saragriffiths8135]

Love your videos !!, who are the authors you were with at that book thing, you mentioned it at the beginning of discussing the first curse :)

[@maryeckel9682]

Have you done the Jersey Devil? Very interesting backstory there.

[@tibbers]

Hey, love your videos! Could you please cover the curse on the mayo GAA football team ? Thank you!

[@princekrazie]

I am ethnically Chinese so I really wish you would talk some about China. It might not be in your purview and specialization, but I feel like there aren't enough honest sources about Chinese museums and archaeology on the internet. I would really appreciate it. Here are some things which can possibly be topics worth talking about: How China weaponizes archaeology and paleontology for political purposes. The Tarim corpses. How old is Chinese civilization? Is the 5000 years claim accurate? Do Chinese people have a right to claim ancient site such as Sanxingdui as their own history, considering that not all sites in China are genetically or culturally related to modern Hàn Chinese people? What are some ways that Chinese scholars and Western scholars can be influenced by their own biases? Do Chinese scholars try to intentionally age-up their civilization to make China appear older? I'm just interested on archaeoloy and history in relation to modern politics. I'm just... Kind of surprised and bummed that there is SO LITTLE discourse on the internet about these topics.

[@cesaravegah3787]

You have the curse of the Emperor Tomb, the thing is full of mercury meaning that people who opens it would be poisoned for real, mercury even on small quantities causes horrible brain damage usually followed by painful death and is very difficult to treat, that is quite the curse if your ask me.

[@maryeckel9682]

I would love to see Cinzia dig into some Chinese material! Another person you might want to contact is Milo at Miniminuteman.

[@shiwohwoh]

lovely video can't wait for the next

[@CinziaDuBois]

Tomorrow!

[@nickrhodes9031]

Sits thinking...oh I wonder if that's where Wilkie Collins got his idea? Couldn't have been more wrong .

[@lesliemoiseauthor]

I was very aware of the possible meanings of the word "curse." Was looking forward to hearing some new swear words--which is not to say I didn't thoroughly enjoy the video. (Napoleon. "Sorry, not sorry." 🤣)

[@Bzerker01]

Maybe not as academic but American Baseball has a ton of mythical curses including the famous Curse of the Babino.

[@cesaravegah3787]

Is not the "Bambino"?

[@maryeckel9682]

And the Billy Goat Curse

[@holyfreak86]

So having a streak of bad luck was called "curse" back then😅

[@valerianabathory]

If enough people believe with sufficient intensity and conviction that there is a curse, then one is sure to manifest itself :)

[@tylerboro4812]

What about the curse of the billy goat?

[@zakcourt]

My stoned ass thought this was a Harry Potter video, got 5 minutes in until getting sus... Lady: Everyone will know the first curse, of course. Me: Of course, Avada Kadavra. 👁👄👁

[@randomcomment6068]

I would pop it on the wall of the pub with a placard describing its history and curse.

[@patriciadean1649]

You are one fabulous person ❤

[@freakrx2349]

Do curse words count as curses? I wonder how much people back then cussed.

[@justinwatson1510]

I think fermented works as well as cemented.

[@norikadolmy7274]

I think you meant cemented lol but I love your channel I think you will have a million subs by end of the year

[@julietfischer5056]

Ever notice how these so-called curses take decades to work out? Almost as though the 'victims' were just living their lives. Meanwhile, curses in fiction have results that can't be rationalized.

[@valerielhw]

As an American, I should mention the _Curse of Tippecanoe._ It was placed when then-General Harrison had fought on Native American grounds during the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe. It stated that US Presidents who were elected in years ending in "0" would die in office. When President William Harrison was elected in 1840, he died in office just one month later from pneumonia. From 1840 through 1960, all US Presidents who were elected or re-elected in a "O" year have died in office. None have died in office since, so hopefully the curse has expired.

[@RM-we7px]

Then there’s the National Hockey League curse. Don’t say shutout about a goalie in the game. Because he usually gets scored on. 😊

[@SunniDae333]

The chair is the only one I really believe lol

[@micahfoley9572]

I wan someone to call me a good boy the way The Lady says good girl to her dog.

[@j.d.4697]

The fact that people died at all is proof enough for a curse!

[@evanames5940]

Thanks, a great video

[@CinziaDuBois]

Glad you liked it!

[@NatashaKlishina]

Great Work! ♥️🐾

[@CinziaDuBois]

You are so kind

[@MrChefT]

Going to go out on a limb here and say that you didn’t include the Curse of the Big Bambino. The Boston RedSox owner sold/traded BabeRuth to the NY Yankees to fund a Broadway Play. The curse began that same year.

[@skohtihamilton9443]

Bruce and Brandon Lee. Generational curses are very real.

[@cindyn8196]

Very interesting ❤

[@CinziaDuBois]

Glad you think so!

[@dairemcd5936]

Clicks on the video when it has 666 views, have I just cursed myself?

[@CwL-1984]

Interesting 🤔 👍👍

[@dwwest8168]

I knew a woman that believed she could curse people. I just thought she was nuts.

[@noneyabuisness3547]

Thanks for sharing some really neat curses! If you do another video similar to this, you can talk about James Dean’s car “Little B*stard”? It’s a really neat story, and the concept of a cursed car is so interesting to me that I’d love to hear your thoughts on it!

[@starcapture3040]

Can you talk about the bezazu of Mesopotamia

[@caseyhafer2550]

I think curses, in the historical sense, developed from people at the end of their rope in one manner or another. Think about it: somebody is being unfairly persecuted and oppressed and their back is against the wall. They have no weapons or resources with which to fight back. All they have is a burning desire for justice and vengeance. Here is where a curse is the most powerful. Just my take.

[@mjkluck]

Good stuff, Kiddo.

[@j.d.4697]

An evil elemental?! Has Doyle learned nothing from his creation that is Holmes?!

[@grapeshot]

Curses, more than likely coincidences.

[@millymollymrst3537]

I'd love more curses and superstitions. Very interesting video.😊

[@cozmothemagician7243]

Drunk people die after leaving pub. HOW SPOOKY & MYSTERIOUS!! I wanna tell you a story about this SPOOKY body of water... countless people have died in it... I would tell you about the horrific Atlantic Ocean... but I wanna make sure you can sleep tonight O_o

[@sheldonwheaton881]

Don't think I've seen that Carter photo in color.

[@Selene_Rosara]

I thoroughly enjoyed the video, but the background music is a bit loud for me. I kept getting distracted by it.

[@melaniesheldon8013]

I wish the curses were really real. The desecration of Egyptian tombs is a crime and first world countries are responsible for such caucausity. They should pay reparations to Egypt

[@marocat4749]

may you live in interesting times :( dunno if its a curse thou or made up i lik th face in rome of truth that allgently bides you if youlie o have bad ontentions :O

[@idontwantachannel7542]

Cuh - nar - van

[@lungelongubane4071]

I'm sorry tat chair has taken too many people tbh tats way too scary why yall still sit on it 💔💔💔💔

[@crystallinecrow3365]

I was the thirteenth like on this video 😈😈

[@Heothbremel]

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[@rachelspencer9456]

🧡☠️🧡☠️🧡☠️🧡

[@micahfoley9572]

A delayed curse lol aka a coincidence

[@ChristianCaliberNetwork]

😈😈😈

[@jeffbrownstain]

Hi. I'm well. Hbu?

[@KatherineHugs]

Thanks, great Video 😊

[@CinziaDuBois]

You’re welcome 😊