ATEngland once found a painting called "The Crying Boy", copies of which became very popular. Later, all copies of the painting were burned by the British.
The picture turned out to be not simple or even "cursed", in the houses where there was a copy of it, there were fires. There were so many fires that it was hardly a mere coincidence - everything burned down except for this picture ...
The artist and author of the painting, the Spanish artist Giovanni Bragolin (also known as Bruno Amadio), the father of the child depicted on it, mocked his son by lighting matches in front of the baby's face.
The fact is that the boy was afraid of fire to death, and the man, thus, tried to achieve the brightness, vitality and naturalness of the canvas. The boy was crying - the artist was painting. Once the kid shouted at his father: "You yourself burn!". A month later, the child died of pneumonia. And a couple of weeks later, the charred body of the artist was found in his own house next to a painting of a crying boy that survived the fire.
The picture came to the owners of one of the printing houses, who, having not found the copyright holder and after doing a little marketing, found out that they could make a good business on it. And indeed, copies of "Crying Boy" began to disperse like hot cakes. Unfortunately, the consequences of such a business have become no less “hot”.
Renowned English specialist in the field paranormal activity Richard Lazarus, who was "in the thick of things," spent own investigation.
After a series of unexplained fires in several houses in Britain, it was discovered that in every room in which a fire started, there was a reproduction of a painting depicting crying boy. This detail, perhaps, would have gone unnoticed if not for one circumstance: in all cases, without exception, the picture remained unharmed, while all other things burned down.
The phenomenon became known to the public in early September 1985, when Yorkshire firefighter Peter Hall went to the press with a story that fire brigades in the north of England had experienced repeated fires over the past summer that destroyed everything in the building except for a cheap reproduction. pictures of a crying boy. The causes of the fires in these cases remained undisclosed.
Hall talked about this miracle after his own brother Ron, not believing the story, bought a reproduction and hung it in his room to prove it was all fiction, and returned from work the next day to find that his house was almost completely burned down. Seeing how the completely undamaged painting of the Crying Boy was taken out of the ruins of a burnt house, Ron Hall began to cry himself.
After this interview, a huge number of letters rained down on the editorial office of the newspaper, in which victims of the fires wrote about a picture of a crying boy lying unharmed in the ruins of their burnt houses.
Dora Brand of Mitcham, Surrey, saw her house reduced to ashes six weeks after she bought the painting, and although she had over a hundred others, this one survived.
Sandra Kraske from Kilburn reported that she, her sister, mother and their friend all got burned after each had a matching copy. Other reports came from Leeds, Nottingham, Oxfordshire, and the Isle of Wight. On the twenty-first of October, Parillo Pizza Palace, at Great Yartmouth, Norfolk, was burned to the ground, though The Boy remained in excellent condition. Three days later the Godbers of Herrinthorpe, in South Yorkshire, also lost their home; in the fire, the reproduction that hung in their living room remained intact, although all the other paintings burned to the ground.
The next day in Heswop, Merseyside, a couple of paintings hung in the living room and dining room of the house, family owned Amos, survived while the entire building was blown apart by a gas explosion. Barely a day later, there was another report of the Crying Boy fire, this time from the home of former firefighter Fred Thrower of Telford, Shropshire. One newspaper suggested that all the owners of the painting arrange for its mass burning.
While most in Britain thought the whole story was a long running joke, others were less sure. By November some former owners"Boy" acquired nervous diseases, because it seemed to them all the time that the "spirit" of the picture they destroyed now intends to take revenge.
On the twelfth of November, Malcolm Vaughan of Gloucestershire helped his neighbor burn another "Weeping Boy". He returned home to find that the entire living room was already on fire, flaring up inexplicably.
A few weeks later, a mysterious flame swept through a house in Weston nad Maroy, County Avon, killing its occupant, sixty-seven-year-old William Armitage, and the case hit the headlines because the painting was found completely intact next to the charred body of an old man. One of the firefighters who tried to put out the fire later said: "I never believed in curses before. But when you see a whole picture in a completely burnt room, and it is the only thing that was not damaged, then you understand that it has crossed all boundaries" .
Another of the victims of this painting was the famous art collector Dora Brand, who said that after the fire, all of her once large and beautiful collection only one painting remained - "The Crying Boy".
After all these cases with the picture, an advertisement appeared in the newspaper, which called on everyone who has a reproduction of this picture to burn it immediately.
This year in Great Britain was the year of mass burning of paintings. Only in this way did the British get rid of this unusual phenomenon, which is still unsolved. By the way, the original of this painting has not yet been found. Many English people still believe that the picture was a curse. And in Northern England it is officially forbidden to have a picture of "The Crying Boy" in your home.
The Crying Boy phenomenon remained unexplained.
In addition, there are other masterpieces of this kind - "Insomnia"
and "Demon Defeated" by Vrubel
, "Water Lilies" by Monet
, Adoration of the Magi by Peter Brueghel the Elder,
"Troika"Vasily Grigorievich Perov
, "Gioconda" Da Vinci.
.. And of course the magnificent Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velasquez and his Venus with a Mirror.
It all began, probably in September 1985, when Ron and May Hull, a couple from Rotherham, approached the editors of the British newspaper The Sun. The British decided to tell reporters the story that happened to them. According to the couple, their house recently burned down for an unknown reason, but a reproduction of The Crying Boy remained on the black, charred wall, almost untouched by fire. The brother of the head of the family worked as a firefighter and not only confirmed this information, but also noticed that portraits with a red-haired child were also found intact in other burnt houses.
The newspaper staff conducted their own investigation. It turned out that two months earlier, one printing plant had printed more than fifty thousand reproductions of the canvas, which quickly dispersed in the workers of the northern regions of England. The journalists found out that during this time there were more than forty fires in the houses where this picture was hung, and each time the work turned out to be intact, as if the flame deliberately did not touch the portrait.
THE SAME MYSTICAL PICTURE DOES NOT BURN
An article published by The Sun was sensational. After reading it, many Britons began to call the editorial office, claiming that they also purchased this painting, and they also had fires. One man said that he bought a reproduction on purpose and tried to burn it in the fireplace, but the portrait, having lain whole hour on fire, not even slightly burned. The buzz around The Crying Boy was so great that representatives of the South Yorkshire Fire Department issued an official statement, explaining that there was supposedly no mysticism: they say that there were too many prints printed, and statistically there is nothing unusual in the fact that paintings with a gloomy child sometimes they end up in houses where fires break out.
The owners of The Sun also had to make a statement. Newspapermen reported that they were tired of calls from readers, and agreed that everyone who wanted to send them their copy of the picture. A week later, the editorial office was inundated with thousands of portraits of the Crying Boy. Editor Calvin Mackenzie, who turned out to be a superstitious man, demanded that the paintings be destroyed as soon as possible. Some time later, the paper published new article, which stated that all received copies of the canvas were burned outside the city. However, many Britons did not believe this, including because the article did not include photographs of the mass burning of paintings.
Almost all fire officials also turned out to be superstitious, to whom the picture began to be presented as a comic gift. People who claimed that there was no connection between the portrait and the fires completely refused such presentations. Some said that the picture would not suit their interior, others claimed that they did not like painting in general, and others did not even name the reasons for their refusal.
Giovanni Bragolin, The Crying Boy. 1950s
Associated with many works of art Mystic stories and riddles. Moreover, some experts believe that dark and secret forces are involved in the creation of a number of canvases.
There are grounds for such an assertion. Too often these fateful masterpieces have happened amazing facts and unexplained events- fires, deaths, madness of authors...
One of the most famous "cursed" paintings is "Crying Boy" - a reproduction of the painting Spanish artist Giovanni Bragolina.
The history of its creation is as follows: the artist wanted to paint a portrait of a crying child and took his little son as a sitter.
But, since the baby could not cry to order, the father deliberately brought him to tears, lighting matches in front of his face. The artist knew that his son was terribly afraid of fire, but art was dearer to him than nerves. own child and he continued to bully him.
Once brought to hysterics, the kid could not stand it and shouted, shedding tears: “You yourself burn!” This curse did not take long to come true - two weeks later the boy died of pneumonia, and soon burned alive in own house and his father... This is the backstory.
The painting, or rather its reproduction, gained its sinister fame in 1985, in England. It happened thanks to the series strange coincidences- in Northern England, one after another, fires of residential buildings began to occur. There were human casualties.
On September 4, 1985, the British newspaper The Sun published an article titled Blazing Curse of the Crying Boy. In the article married couple Rona and May Hallov of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, claimed that after their house burned down in the fire, a cheap reproduction of a painting of a crying boy was left intact on the wall in the midst of the destruction.
In addition, Ron's brother Peter Hull was reported to work at the Rotherham Fire Department, and one of his colleagues, Alan Wilkinson, claimed that very often firefighters found an intact reproduction of the "Crying Boy" at conflagrations.
And there were more and more such reports, until, finally, one of the fire inspectors publicly announced that in all the burnt houses, without exception, the Crying Boy was found untouched.
Immediately, the newspapers were flooded with a wave of letters, which reported various accidents, deaths and fires that occurred after the owners bought this painting. Of course, the “Crying Boy” immediately began to be considered cursed, the story of its creation surfaced, overgrown with rumors and fictions ...
The newspaper said that anyone who wants to get rid of the Crying Boy painting can take it to the newspaper office, where the reproductions will be destroyed and the curse lifted from the unfortunate owners.
This whole story ended with the mass burning of paintings depicting a boy in tears. The fire action was planned to be held on the roof of the editorial building, but firefighters refused to participate in this pretentious show. And the burning was carried out outside the city. An article about this event appeared in the next issue of the newspaper.
To this day, The Crying Boy is notorious, especially in Northern England. By the way, the original has not yet been found.
True, some doubters (especially here in Russia) deliberately hung this portrait on their wall, and, it seems, no one burned down. But still, there are very few who want to test the legend in practice.
I would like to add that some sources report that the artist did not burn down, but died a natural death in 1981 and was a fairly wealthy man.
The publisher of the reproductions of "The Crying Boy" explained the incombustibility of the paintings, the quality of the paper, that it was very dense.
In the press, and then on the Internet periodically old story comes to life again, and in the most different options: for example, with claims that if a reproduction is handled well, then a boy, on the contrary, will bring good luck to the owners, or that similar fires occur in other places in the world.
It is difficult to judge where is the truth and where is fiction. But it is better not to bring a reproduction of the "Crying Boy" into your home.
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Legend has it that the artist painted The Crying Boy from his own son. And since the baby could not cry on order, the father lit matches in front of his face - the boy was terribly afraid of fire. Allegedly, one day the child could not stand it and shouted: “You yourself burn!” And the curse worked: the picture was finished, and two weeks later the child literally “burned out” from pneumonia. After some time, the artist's workshop burned down. Together with the artist himself.
In fact, there is no historical evidence for this legend. Bruno Amadio, known under the pseudonym Bragolin, died peacefully on September 22, 1981 at the age of 70. About who exactly posed for the artist for this picture, nothing is known. But it is known that in houses decorated with reproductions of this picture, fires often occur. In this case, the reproductions themselves do not burn. In the mid-80s, the British newspaper The Sun began investigating this mystery: an article was published about a family of fire victims who claimed that not a single thing survived in a terrible fire, except for a reproduction of this picture. Readers began to send stories about similar cases to the paper. Maybe this story would have remained an urban legend if another fire had not happened soon. Another Crying Boy was found on the ashes - completely intact. After that, the editors announced an action of mass burning of reproductions - to get rid of the curse. Apparently it helped. In any case, there has been no more news of the fiery tears of the crying boy since then.
Claude Monet. Water lilies
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But the water lilies of the brush french impressionist Claude Monet is really a fire hazard, this is not a legend. The painting "set fire" to several houses and museums. The painter himself was the first victim - shortly after finishing work on the painting, Monet's workshop caught fire for inexplicable reasons. The "Lilies" themselves were not affected. Later picture purchased for a famous cabaret in Montmartre - a few weeks later it burned to the ground. The painting was again not damaged, and the French collector Otto Schmidts became its new owner. A year later, a fire started in his house, and, despite the efforts of firefighters, only one wall survived. The one on which the "Lilies" hung. The picture began to be considered cursed, and it migrated from private collections to the museum. contemporary arts in New York. Shortly thereafter, in 1958, a fire broke out in the museum. One of the employees of the museum died in the fire.
Bill Stoneham. Hands resist him
American surrealist artist Bill Stoneham painted this picture from a not very successful, but quite innocent photo, which depicts himself with his younger sister. There was absolutely nothing sinister in the photograph, but in the picture the girl turned into a doll, and the peaceful landscape behind the children turned into a glass door, to which children's palms were pressed. According to the artist, the glass door is a barrier separating real world and the world of dreams, and the doll is a guide to the world of dreams. Maybe the idea was such, but in the end the picture itself turned out to be a guide to the world of madness.
The first person to see the painting, and at the same time its first victim, was an art historian and owner of the Los Angeles Times: almost immediately after seeing the painting, the man died. Then the picture was acquired by actor John Marley - and soon after that he died during heart surgery. After that, the picture in a completely incomprehensible way ended up in a landfill, where a certain man found it and decided to decorate his house with this canvas. The very first night after that, his four-year-old daughter ran into her parents' bedroom in tears: according to her, the children in the picture were fighting. The next night, everything happened again, only now the children were standing outside the door. New owner hurried to get rid of the painting, and it was sold on eBay for a thousand dollars. The new owner placed the painting in his art gallery, but soon began to receive letters demanding that it be destroyed. Visitors complained that the picture brings them to panic attacks, confusion and even heart attacks.
Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Adoration of the Magi
Brueghel painted the Virgin Mary from his cousin. Alas, the artist's model in life was nothing like the Virgin Mary - the unfortunate woman was barren, and therefore was often beaten by her husband. And she was also accused of “infecting” the painting: in the house into which this canvas fell, children ceased to be born. Four times the picture fell into private collections, and four times made its owners barren. In 1637, the painting was bought by the architect Jacob van Kampen, a happy father of three children, who, of course, was not afraid of the curse of the painting.
Diego Velasquez. Venus with a mirror
This sinister canvas brought misfortune to its owners for centuries and calmed down only after it was pierced with a knife. The first victim was a Spanish merchant - shortly after buying the painting, he went bankrupt and was forced to sell all his property. new owner paintings owned rich warehouses in the port, and nothing threatened his well-being. Except for lightning, which one night struck directly into the warehouses, and the resulting fire burned them to the ground. And again the owner of the painting is ruined, and again the canvas is put up for auction. The picture was bought by another wealthy gentleman, but, unfortunately, he did not go bankrupt: three days later robbers entered his house and stabbed the owner. And only in 1906 the picture stopped killing: “Venus with a Mirror” was purchased for the London Gallery, but the picture was shown for a short time. Suffragette Mary Richardson felt that the "cursed canvas" should not be shown in the gallery, because it degrades the dignity of women, and cut the painting with a knife. The restored Venus seems to have lost its evil temper after this incident.
Ivan Kramskoy. unknown
The picture itself is a mystery: none of Kramskoy's contemporaries guessed who the artist painted - the woman in the picture seemed vaguely familiar to everyone, but no one could remember where he met the "Unknown". The artist answered all questions. mysterious smile. But the picture, if it smiled at its owners, was perhaps ominously. Tretyakov refused to buy the painting for his gallery, and the painting passed to a private owner. Soon his wife left him, and the abandoned husband hastened to get rid of the portrait. The second owner of the painting did not lose his wife, but the house - the building burned down, but the painting survived and passed to the third owner. Soon he went bankrupt. Misfortune did not bypass Kramskoy himself: a year after painting the picture, the artist lost two sons. The picture was taken away from the country, but even there the new owners were haunted by misfortunes. Only in 1925 did the canvas finally take its place in Tretyakov Gallery and has since ceased to bring misfortune.
Edvard Munch. scream
The artist himself spoke of his own famous painting So:
I was walking along the path with two friends - the sun was setting. Suddenly the sky turned blood red, I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned against the fence - I looked at the blood and flames over the bluish-black fjord and the city. My friends went on, and I stood, trembling with excitement, feeling the endless scream piercing nature.
But the figure of the screamer and the horror on his face are more suggestive of death agony, and not of nature. The picture frightens with its appearance alone, but, alas, its curse is not exhausted by this.
One of the employees of the museum, which houses the Scream, once dropped the painting. Soon after this, the unfortunate began to suffer from severe headaches. Unbearable migraines soon drove him to suicide. Another museum worker dropped the painting during a change of display. Soon after, he was in a terrible car accident. A visitor to the museum, who decided to discreetly touch the painting, burned alive in his own house a week later. The cursed canvas did not spare even its own creator: Edvard Munch suffered a severe nervous breakdown, as a result of which he had to undergo electric shock treatment. The artist died at the age of 81, leaving as a gift hometown several thousand paintings, drawings, engravings and manuscripts. But The Scream eclipsed them all.
The Crying Boy is a painting by the Spanish artist Giovanni Bragolin, also known as Bruno Amadio. Reproduction of this painting superstitious people is considered cursed, and it causes a fire in those rooms where it is located
It is no secret to anyone, even the most skeptical person, that there is such a thing as a “curse” in the world. There are many so-called cursed places on the planet. But the curse can also contain items. The reasons why this happens are still unknown. An example of this is the cursed painting "The Crying Boy". Until now, everything connected with this picture instills in people an incomprehensible feeling of anxiety and misunderstanding of what is happening ...
What is it - a cruel curse or the most inexplicable coincidences in history? Everything described below gives reason to believe that the curse that some items contain may still exist. I think that everything that happened with the painting “The Crying Boy” can hardly be called a coincidence ...
Damn picture.
In the middle of 1985 across the UK front-page stories related to the fires and, mysteriously surviving in these unrelated fires, a cheap reproduction of the painting "Crying Boy". A reproduction of this painting was located where the fire started. This could well be explained as an absurd coincidence, but she alone remained unharmed, while everything around was destroyed by fire.
The Crying Boy is a painting by the Spanish artist Giovanni Bragolin, also known as Bruno Amadio. A reproduction of this picture is considered cursed by superstitious people, and it causes a fire in the rooms where it is located.
The artist of this picture, the boy's father, terribly mocked his son. The boy was very afraid of fire, and his father, in order to give the picture brightness and mystery, lit matches in front of his face, thereby making him cry. Unable to bear such bullying, the child shouted to his father: "You burn yourself." The child died of pneumonia a month later, and a couple of weeks later, the charred body of the artist was found in the burnt house next to the only thing that survived the fire - the painting "Crying Boy". Such is the history of this canvas ...
About it unusual phenomenon started talking in early summer when Yorkshire firefighter Peter Hall, in an interview with a major newspaper, reported that all the fire brigades of Northern England began to find countless reproductions of this painting, which remained untouched by a fire that started for completely incomprehensible reasons. Peter Hall, in an interview, let slip about this fact only after his brother, who completely refused to believe in this mythical story, bought a reproduction of The Crying Boy, and thereby decided to refute the fact that this picture is cursed. Shortly thereafter, his house, which was located in the south of Yorkshire, in Swallonest, burned to the ground, for unknown reasons. Seeing that the cursed painting was the only thing that survived the fire, Roy Hall angrily crushed it with his boot.
After the publication of this interview, a British daily newspaper received a huge number of calls and letters from the owners of the reproduction of the painting, who suffered in the same way. The house of Dora Brand, who lives in Mitcham, Surrey, burned to the ground six weeks after she purchased the painting. Although there were more than a hundred other paintings in the house, only one painting survived the fire ...
Sandra Kraske, from Kilburn, recounted how her sister, mother, their friend, and herself were all affected by the fires after they each had a copy of the cursed painting. Similar information also came from the counties of Nottingham, Oxfordshire and the Isle of Wight. On October 21, Parillo Pizza Palace, located in Great Yartmouth, burned to the ground, leaving only the Crying Boy in excellent condition. Three days later, the Godber family, who lived in Herrinthorpe (South Yorkshire), also lost their house in a fire. And only the reproduction of The Boy, which hung in the living room, miraculously survived, although all other paintings burned down.
The next day, in the house that belonged to the Amos family in Heswople, Merseyside, literally torn apart by a gas explosion, only a couple of pictures of the Crying Boy, which hung in the dining room and living room of the house, remained unscathed. A day later, a new message was received, this time the fire occurred in the house of a former firefighter from Telford (Shropshire) Fred Thrower. Only one reproduction survived.
One of the newspapers suggested that all owners of reproductions of the cursed painting organize a mass burning of this painting. By autumn, some of the owners who had destroyed the painting had acquired nervous illnesses. It seemed to them that the damned picture, which they destroyed, now intends to take revenge on them.
Several fire brigades, who were approached for comment on the growing hysteria surrounding the painting, flatly refused to discuss it or participate in any of the mass burnings of the painting that were taking place across the country. Meanwhile, the tragedy continued...
November 12 Malcolm Vaughan, who lives in Gloucestershire, helped his neighbor destroy another "Crying Boy". After he returned home, he saw that the entire living room of his house was on fire, which broke out for some unknown reason. A few weeks later, a house in Weston nad Maroy (Avon) was destroyed by flames, which also killed its occupant, 67-year-old William Armitage. This incident hit the front pages of the newspapers because the cursed painting was found completely intact next to the charred body of the old man. One firefighter who took part in putting out the fire said: “I never believed in a curse before. However, when you have to see a whole picture in a completely burned-out room - the only thing that was not damaged, then you have to understand that this goes beyond all limits.
Since then, in the press, and then on the Internet, the old story periodically comes to life, and in absolutely various options. For example, it is stated that under the condition good treatment with a reproduction, "The Crying Boy" is able, on the contrary, to bring good luck to its owner. You be the judge...
