SCOFFER DEFIES' CURSE
THREAT OF DEATH
LONDON, Sept. 9
A curse which is said to have cost many lives was defied by F. W. Jacquemin, of Wolverhampton, when he lay down in the desecrated sarcophagus of the last abbot of the ruined Bindon Abbey at Wool, Dorset. By his action, Jacqucmin lias, according to local superstition, doomed himself to violent death within a year. Since the abbot's tomb was robbed more than 200 years ago, the curse is said to have been on it. It was in iiiis sarcophagus that Angel Clare, in Thomas Hardy’s "Toss of the D’Urbervilles,” while sleep-walking on the first night ol his honeymoon, placed the tragic Tess. Several persons who have defied the curse have been killed in accidents.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 12
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124SCOFFER DEFIES' CURSE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19777, 3 November 1938, Page 12
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