CURSE DEFIED
DEATH WITHIN A YEAR "I BELIEVE IT IS NONSENSE" Mr. F. W. Jacq'uemin, of Dudley Road, Wolverhampton, has defied a curse which is said to have cost more than one life and under which he is "doomed" to violent death within a year.
Ho showed his contempt for the curse by lying in the desecrated sarcophagus of the last abbot of the now ruined Bindon Abbey (founded 1172) at Wool, Dorset. The abbot was, buried with his jewelled crozier. Since his tomb was robbed, 200 years ago, the curso is said to have lain on it. '
Four years ago a Wool youth, grandson of tho 78-vear-old caretaker of Bindon Abbey, Mrs. Brown, defied the curso. A few months later he was killed in a motor-cycling accident. Some years ago a girl living in the village is said to have done the same thing only a few weeks before she was murdered and thrown into the River Frome. "I believe tho curse is a lot of nonsense," Mr. Jacquemin said to a Sunday Express representative. "Tho only thing I'm afraid of is increasing tho villagers' belief. Should I by chance meet" with a sticky end in the next few months, every one will be certain to blame the curse."-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23061, 11 June 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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