Article: Hope Diamond: ?The Killing Stone?
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Hope Diamond: ?The Killing Stone?
Of all the well-known big diamonds the most infamous is the Hope Diamond, a blue colored beauty that was dubbed ?The Killing Stone.?
According to the legend the hope was placed in front of a Buddha statue when it was stolen by a warrior, Tavernier, and a curse that foretold bad luck and death befell on the stone ever since. For this transgression, the legend says, Tavernier was torn apart by wild dogs on a trip to Russia just after he had sold the diamond. This was the first horrible death attributed to the curse. But many others would follow?
The businessman who had acquired the stone sold it to king Louis XV. Soon after that, the businessman got poor, contracted a mysterious disease and died suffering terrible convulsions.
When Louis XV died, ...
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