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Curse of the crying boy
by MarkLindsay
5 months ago
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Spiritual
Last updated 5 months ago.
On September 4th 1985, the Crying Boy curse was born when an article was printed in The Sun. Peter Hall, a Yorkshire firefighter had come across the Crying Boy paintings too many times unscorched in housefires. The Crying Boy paintings were mass produced, so many people owned one. Once this first article was published many people rang The Sun sharing their experiences with these paintings. The Crying Boy (TCB) is a mass-produced painting and exists in several forms. The subject is a boy ranging in age from 4 to 10 years old. His clothing and the painting style differ depending on what period the artist has set him in. The jinx story seems to have been started by "The Sun" in 1985 and went from strength to strength with all sorts of reasons (the boy was a Romany whose family placed the curse, the boy was an orphan, the boy himself had died in a fire etc). One version of the myth is that the original TCB picture was a portrait painted by a Spanish artist and that the subject was an orphan. The artist’s studio burnt down and the boy himself was later killed in a car crash. Psychics claimed the boy’s spirit was trapped in the painting and that the curse extends to all the many different versions of the painting! The curse apparently only affects those who are aware that the painting is cursed – hardly surprising since any subsequent misfortune will get blamed on the painting. The painter was Spanish, Bruno Amadia also known as J. Bragolin.
These are just a few of the crying boys/girls I have pictures of the others if anyones interested.
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MikeCovell Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
I remember this phenomena well and also remember that one of the former editors of the sun revealed it was all a hoax to sell newspapers at a time when the daily mirror was exceeding sales.
The portrait was said to have been painted by a Spanish painter of a little boy he found wandering the streets. He painted the boy and on his return to his studio it was burnt down, the painter was burnt to a crisp and only the painting survived. The little boy is alleged to have died in a car crash!
Thus begins the urban legend. Yet urban legends have facts which can be checked and this is were the story fell apart. The man responsible for the painting did not exsist, the location of the crashed car had not had any fatalities due to a crashed car. Nor were there any fires reported on the date in the location were the alleged studio is supposed to have stood.
Then the believers chipped in claiming it was a cover up, the boy was from Colombia!
Again, not one detail could be verified and eventually the sun stopped publishing the stories.
The portrait was actually painted by a spanish painter called Bruno Amadio aka Bragolin. Mass produced for the global market and a legend created around its humble beginings.
Bragolin, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bragolin Crying boy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_Boy Crying-boy-myth http://www.messybeast.com/dragonqueen/cryingboy.htm
The portrait was also the subject pf a Fortean Times feature in the past few months.
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MikeCovell Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
I have posted a picture on the main "Yoursay" page with the Sun newspaper’s photo, of the crying boys burning.
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MarkLindsay Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
thanks Mike, I am looking into curses as such,got some spare time on my hands so hopefully more to come. It makes good reading for us paranormal enthusiacs
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MikeCovell Submitted 5 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!
I love a good curse, and have quite a lot of books on myths and legends, superstitions and urban legends.
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