Show CURSE THAT WAS EFFECTIVE LaT cadIo hearn tell story of japa nese in one his recent stories laocadie cadIe hearn deals with a singular alon in japan A woman had accord ing to a very common custom in japan given her mirror to go into the melting pot to make a bell fora bud chist temple after she had given it she remembered that it had been her mother s and her grandmother and that it must have reflected ss good many happy smiles so she regretted giving it she longed tor the chance of stealing it back but it never As the mirror was given grudgingly it would not melt she was sure that everybody must know who had done such a dreadful thing as to grudge gift to a temple so she drowsed cef self leaving a farewell letter contain ing these words when I 1 am dead it will not be d to melt the mir and to cast the bell but tb the person who breaks that bell by ring ing it great wealth will be taken by the ghost of me this was a magal fic estly curse because every body tried to ring the bell till it should break the priests were driven to the verge of madness by the ringing and threw it into a swamp so that nobody could ring it any more |