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I like various fandoms and way too many things so I just lump it all up here. I particularly like funny stuff. I'm also very social and talk to just about anyone.
On another note I'm a bisexual 27 year old Puerto Rican single mom. Expect to see tons of stuff in here about yaoi, yuri or het, so I hope that all of my followers are open to these types of things, otherwise you won't like following me. *wince*
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
quotation from article written by: David Clarke
THE COMING OF THE CURSE
‘The Curse of the Crying Boy’ appeared out of the blue one morning in 1985. The Sun, at that time the most popular tabloid newspaper in the English-speaking world, published on page 13 of its 4 September edition a story headlined: “Blazing Curse of the Crying Boy”. It told how Ron and May Hall blamed a cheap painting of a toddler with tears rolling down his face for a fire which gutted their terraced council home in Rotherham, a mining town in South Yorkshire. The blaze broke out in a chip-pan in the kitchen of their home of 27 years and spread rapidly. But although the downstairs rooms of the house were badly damaged, the framed print of the Crying Boy escaped unscathed. It continued to hang there, surrounded by a scene of devastation.
Normally a chip-pan blaze would merit nothing more than a couple of paragraphs in a local newspaper. What transformed this story into a page lead in Britain’s leading tabloid was the intervention of Ron Hall’s brother Peter, a firefighter based in Rotherham. A colleague of Peter’s, station officer Alan Wilkinson, said he knew of numerous other cases where prints of the ‘Crying Boy’ had turned up, undamaged, in the ruins of homes destroyed by fires.
Accompanying the article was a photograph of a ‘Crying Boy’, with the caption: “Tears for fears… the portrait that firemen claim is cursed.” The firemen concerned had not actually used the word ‘cursed’, but nevertheless the newspaper report had helped to give the story a certain level of credibility. The paper added that an estimated 50,000 ‘Crying Boy’ prints, signed ‘G Bragolin’, had been sold in branches of British department stores, particularly in the working class areas of northern England. Examples could be seen hanging in the front rooms of family homes across the nation, and one story even suggested a quarter of a million had been sold.
Me: I merely posted this up because I have an aunt that still owns one of these paintings (copies) even after her house caught fire in the 80’s (she doesn’t blame the Crying Boy curse one bit and thinks it bogus).
Anyways. I just like blogging weird stuff once in awhile.
