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MUMMY'S HAND.GRIM RELIC OF EGYPT.PRIESTS CURSE.Count Louis Hamon, a world traveller. whose town house is in Park-squnre. Poriland-p’ace. London, read in a London paper an account of the mummy hawk that bleeds before a i*rent war. and decided to make public a still more remarkable series of events which occurred while he was the possessor of a woman's mimniified hand 3000 years old.‘The hand came to life’ he said to a reporter.It was believed to be the hand of Tutankhamen's sister-in-law, Riven to him 34 years ago by an Egyptian whom he had cured of malaria.It passed out of his possession late in 1922 in strange circumstances. The count produced a photograph oi the mummified hand.•It was the Egyptian's greatest treasure’ he said. ‘He gave it to me because he swore I had saved his life. He claimed to be a descendant of an ancient family of priests, and the story he told mo of the history of the hand was remarkable. WOMAN WARRIOR. Tutankhamen's heretic predecessor had seven daughters. Thfs one revolted, gathered an army against the heretics, and was slain on the field of battle. The heretic priests cut off her right hand and preserved it in some remarkable manner, without linen bindings. Her body was buried somewhere in the Valley of the Kings, near the tomb of Tutankhamen .A curse resled on the hand. It would be carried to every country in the world, never resting with Ihe body. This with the ancient Egyptians was a terrible curse.Count Hamon took the hand everywhere with him.One day at his country house in Ireland the count noticed that the. brown hand, hard as ebony, had moved its position. The forefinger was pointing upwards. He pressed it down again (says the London ‘Daily Express.’)‘It went down softly’ said the count. ‘The next day I felt the hand, and the fiesh had begun to be quite soft, as in life. Three weeks after that one morning, to my wonderment. I saw little red drops along the knuckles. I touched them and they made red smears.‘That was in 1920. In May, 1921, the hand appeared red; In August, 1922, the hand was again soft, and the blood was showing.‘I feared that nobody would believe it, so I obtained sworn depo-sitions, taken before a notary, or an engineer and a chemist who boll* saw the hand in IhiB condition.*He showed the depositions to the ‘Daily Express’ representative. The chemist told how he restored the hand to its hard condition by using a solution of pilch and shellac.In October, 1922, Count Hamon was about to leave Ireland. The furniture was packed except the hand, which wras again soft, and hud he blood spots on it.WHAT FOLLOWED CREMATION.‘I cannot bring my mind to pack it in that state’ said the count to ihe countess. They decided that at last, when the servants weie in bed, they would cremate the hand.‘We walked outside in the moon-1 light. It was All Hallow’s Eve, and in Ireland many people lay the tablecloth and put out food for returning-spirits on that night. The servants had done so in our dining-room.‘We entered the house, I took up the hand tenderly. ‘Cannot we say some prayer?’ I asked my wife. It seemed awful to burn the hand.‘Before I placed the relic on the fire the countess recited one of the prayers from the Egyptian ‘Book of the Dead’—a beautiful prayer.‘Then this tremendous thing happened. The outward glass doors of the porch burst with a crash. We thought it was a raid, for the raid-, ers had already burned down a neighboring factory.‘Then, as we stood staring like frightened children, the great oak doors within the porch bent inwards A moment later they were thrown wide open.‘We could see Ihe passion flowers in the porch. Amid them appeared the head and shoulders of a woman. On her head were the beaten gold beetle wings, with the snake, the royal emblem, in the middle. As 3ho advanced into the firelight a girdio she wore blazed with jewels.‘Arms developed. She bent closo over the fire as we held our breath. A moment later, standing upright and facing us, she raised her arms and joined two hands above her head.‘Then slowly she receded. We followed across the hall, not because of courage, but because we were fascinated. We reached the porch,* in ihe shadow of the passion flowers and gradually she faded, her beautiful eyes intent upon us, vanishing last.‘Five days Inter the tomb of Tutankhamen was discovered.*
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Uralla Times
Uralla, New South Wales, AU
Mon, Apr 07, 1924
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