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Once, there was a beautiful queen as as terrible on the inside as she was glorious on the outside She was vain, wicked, cold, and selfish Her greatest pleasures were her coalfire earrings, terrible wieldy things that swung past her shoulders Each stone was as big around as the ball of the queen&039;s thu the bloodred rocks

So conceited was this queen, and so greatly did she love her coalfire earrings, that she threatened a curse upon any who ht steal them from her So naturally, her people waited until the queen died before taking therave robbers, because no one waited until the hated queen was buried) went to her unguarded body and helped theuarded because the parties celebrating the new enerous wo, and no one especially cared about guarding a dead jerk

The first of the four dropped dead before he could mount his horse The second of the four died after his tent ht The third s for a splendid sum, and promptly dropped dead of a brainstorm, what today is known as an aneurysm What happened to the fourth is not known

The s had thes to a , just before his shop was struck by hundreds of successive strokes of lightning, sparing his life but driving hi fear of flashing lights and loud noises

Thewas the ue on which one) He delivered the earrings to his ested a lethal as, which was later extracted during the autopsy

The earrings eventually reached London, but not after causing a series of increasingly odd and grueso plague, a tos, s several miles away from any natural source of water, and a viciously quick h to describe well

The day the jewelry went on display at the BritishMuseuyptian Antiquities Exhibit, the head of security suffered a fatal heart attack, the gift shop girl went blind, and three tour guides were stricken with crippling dysentery

The earrings stayed in the s, it see in one spot, and curators were known to snatch the for the jewels

They turned up once in the Neanderthal exhibit, twice in the ift shop (by noord of the "cursed" earrings had spread, and noher hours or ho her pay, dared touch theuest nearly choked to death on one) They also went on an unscheduled,found in no fewer than eight exhibits: Japan, Rome, Manila, Greece, the Americas, Britain, the Pacific, and the Near East Each of the other museums, aware of the artifacts&039; history, returned the jewels to Britain quickly and without coe taken forced early retireers and his sense of smell) who, in an atteift of the earrings to Diana, the Princess of Wales

Some time later, they came into the possession of a very old, very curious vas into a series of s them in twenty-five different directions around the planet You know, just to see ould happen

One of the stones ended up in Minnesota, right about at the turn of the twenty-first century Nobody knows the exact date, because those involved in the shipements simply cannot be found