I just want to sell it because my kids don’t like it .Maybe they like the three stripes . In his entry on ‘The Crying Boy Jinx’ Slemen states as fact that the ‘head of the Yorkshire Fire Brigade’ had told newspapers that the crying boy print had turned up in the rubble of houses that had ‘mysteriously burnt to the ground.’ According to Slemen, when journalists asked him if he believed the picture was evil, ‘the fire chief refused to comment.’.
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What transformed this story into a page lead in Britain’s leading tabloid was the intervention of Ron Hall’s brother Peter, a fire fighter based in Rotherham.
(2) Georgina Boyes, Perspectives on Contemporary Legend vol 4 (Sheffield, 1989).
Judas Iscariot | His portraits sold well but one day his studio was destroyed by fire and the artist was ruined. Devil Monkeys | But the cast off painting wants revenge and its anger towards Avril's unborn child might just prove immeasurable.
Kronos | Mephistopheles | The victim was charred beyond recognition, but part of the victim’s driving licence in the glove compartment was only partly burned.
Why was the child crying?’, Naturally journalists turned to experts in the field of folklore and the occult for an explanation. Black Goo | Lucius Tiberius |
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I was just so grateful I got my healthy boy, whom I adored.
One web-source claims that during the nineties crying boy fires began to be reported for the first time from other parts of the world.
One September morning in 1985, British residents opened their copies of The Sun, a popular newspaper, to find an astonishing article. Examples could be seen hanging in the front rooms and lounges of family homes across the nation and one story suggested a quarter of a million had been sold.
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I have a print of.
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Beast of Beckley | In a twist of events Avril's irrational behaviour is brought to a dramatic halt when she discovers she is pregnant. Everyone who has ever cried should read this book.
Black Stick Men | The Crying Book is intensely meta and layered in every direction. I realised that if I ended passing out inside the house it would be the end so I took the animals and left the burning house. From 2008-13 he acted as consultant and curator of the MoD UFO files project with The National Archives. We’d love your help. Shechem |
I remember very well the weirdshit focus on the 'Crying Boy' art prints a good few years ago.
On the third occasion Stan and partner Michelle Houghton, who was heavily pregnant, narrowly escaped death after falling asleep after leaving their supper cooking on a grill. When were you so overcome with grief and moved so deeply, drowned in the oceanic water that stains our cheeks with agony, elation, or somber streaks that are proof of our tangibility.
I was staying at my husbands parents house as my first baby was due to be born any day and because I was having a big baby stayed in there king size bed. Set |
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The Hallowe’en burning was widely believed to have exorcised the ‘curse of the crying boy’ and the number of tabloid stories began to decrease. Kelpie of Loch Ness |
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King Ahab | Loch Ness Monster | Attempts to trace him floundered as art historians said he did not appear to have ‘a coherent biography’.
A big part of the house was destroyed. China Doll | i was in panic and ran after a bucket to get water and fight the fire.
i have the same picture bought by my grandma for the same reason. The lack of any factual basis for the Bonillo legend has done nothing to erode its popularity, stoked by ‘supernatural’ discussion boards on the world wide web. Kuchisake-onna | I am now 43 too! There are numerous alternative versions, but all depict a sad and crying child. curse-affliction I ran up there and entered my room. My parents did not survive.
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Eventually reporter Paul Hooper, with photographers and Page Three girls in tow, left the paper’s Bouverie Street HQ with two van loads of prints ready for burning on a makeshift pyre near Reading. Normally a chip-pan blaze would merit nothing more than a couple of paragraphs in a local newspaper. NOW what hast thou got to say about this CURSE, Clarke?????
You forgot the part about the wife that didn’t exist. Cursed Dolls | Romans | “The Crying Book” (2020) is an interesting book of brief stories, facts and trivia written by Heather Christle--an award winning poet, she teaches creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Tantalus | Trauco | Heaping irony upon comedy, the story continued: ‘The same day an oven in the upstairs kitchen overheated and the firemen’s dinners were burned.’. Count Dracula | Bye Bye Man | Aka Manto |
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Unholy Trinity | Abyzou | Notable Legends
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Fetch | A crying boy painting by Anna Zinkeisen Ancient curses invoked by tomb-raiders have remained a popular theme in fiction and folklore for centuries.
(3) http://www.messybeast.com/dragonqueen/cryingboy.htm, (4) Slemen’s story , from Haunted Liverpool 4 (2000) is reproduced online at, http://board.dogbomb.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-21079.html, (5) For this posting and others continuing the discussion see: http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000104.php, The Sun, Daily Mirror, The Star, Guardian, Rotherham Star, Rotherham Advertiser, September 1985-March 1986, Sheffield Star, 21 February, 5 & 15 March, 7 July 2007, Chippindale, Peter and Horrie, Chris, Stick It Up Your Punter! I was not sure what to expect when I got this book in the mail, but all I can say is wow! ( Log Out / There seem to be a lot of house fires. Saul | The Crying Boy is a mass-produced print of a painting by Italian painter Giovanni Bragolin. Ravana | The views expressed in the contents are entirely his own. The owner, Stan Jones, claimed this was the latest of three separate house fires, each of which had the picture hanging on a wall.
Another was the idea that placing a picture of the ‘crying girl’ next to that of the crying boy would bring good luck or avert bad luck. However, as detailed below, the curse attributed to the crying boy painting (s) are not facts. Eerie in a way, with such arresting language. The act of shedding tears, relentless ones, o. There were times I had to put it down and take a breath between sections. For examples of curses associated with carved Celtic stone heads and ‘screaming skulls’ see Fortean Studies 3 (1996), 126-158.
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