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Show CURSE THAT WAS EFFECTIVE. Lafcadls Hearn Tells Story of Japanese Japa-nese Superstition. In ens of his recent stories lafcsdlo Hearn deals with a singular tuperatl-ttoa tuperatl-ttoa In Jipan. A woman had, accord leg to a very common custom In Ja-pin, Ja-pin, given her mirror to go Into tbe melting pot to make a bell fur a Bud-dblst Bud-dblst temple. After she had given It lbs remombered that It had been her mother's snd her grandmother'!, snd that It must have reflected s good many happy smiles. Bo abe regretted giving It She longed for the chance of stealing It back, but It never came. As tbe mirror waa given grudgingly It would not melt. She waa aure that everybody must know who had done such a dreadful thing aa to grudge a gift to a temple, so she drowned herself, her-self, leaving a farewell letter containing contain-ing these words: "When I am dead. It will not be difficult tn melt the mirror mir-ror and lo cast the bell. Hut, to Ihe person who breaks that bell by ringing ring-ing It, great wealth will be taken by tbe ghost of me." This waa a ras- ' flcently effective curse, becsuse oi ..' body tried lo ring the boll till It s. break. Ths priests wero driven to tbe vergo of madnoas by ths ringing and threw It Into a swsmp. so tbst nobody could ring It sny mors. |