MOST UNLUCKY KING
ILL LUCK EVERY SEVEN
YEARS
A. few weeks ago a registered packet arrived in Cairo for the Prime Minister of Egypt from Vancouver, and was found to contain a beautiful scarab ring accompanied by a letter.
The writer stated that the ring, had been given, by the Khedive to his grandfather, who had been visiting Cairo and Alexandria with a theatrical company. His grandfather had died about sixty years ago, leaving the ring to his father, from whom the writer had inherited it some seven years later.
Ever since the ring had come into the .writer's possession, he said, unaccountable misfortunes had befallen him every seventh year, and it was clear-that possession of the ring carries with it some curse. The next seventh year would'be 1935. so to avoid further ill luck he was returning the ring; whence his family had received it.
The.correspondent added that, while he would not refuse a monetary payment . for "the ring if it had any real value, he.made no claim, his sole desire being to .get rid of the ring and 'the? curse it so obviously bears.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 15
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186MOST UNLUCKY KING Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 15
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