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| Count Louis Hamon |
Count Louis Hamon * was a
famous occultist and psychic healer in the late 19th century and
early 20th century.
He often received exotic
gifts from grateful clients he had cured. While visiting Luxor, Egypt in 1890
Hamon cured a sheik that was ill with malaria.
This sheik then insisted
Hamon accept an unusual gift—it was the mummified hand of a long-dead Egyptian
princess. Hamon disliked the gruesome gift but took it not wanting to
offend the man.
Count Hamon’s wife disliked
this dry, shriveled hand even more. Her dislike quickly turned to horror and
revulsion when she heard the story behind it.
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| 3-D print of the mummified female hand. |
In the 17th century, King Akhnaton of Egypt—who was the father-in-law of Tutankhamun—argued with
his daughter over a religious matter. Angered, he exacted a terrible revenge
upon her.
In 1357 BC, he arranged for
his daughter to be raped and then murdered by his priests. Before she was
buried her right hand was cut off and secretly buried in the Valley of the
Kings.
The Egyptian people were
appalled for they believed his daughter was now barred from entering paradise
because her body was not intact at her burial—with this further step, the King's vengeance was complete.
Hamon’s wife insisted he get
rid of the mummified hand. But all his efforts to do this failed. When he tried
to turn it over to various museums, each curator refused to accept it.
He finally locked the hand
away in an empty wall safe in his London home. In 1922, he and his wife
reopened this safe. Hamon was shocked to find the hand had changed.
This mummified hand that was
3,200 years old no longer was shriveled but instead appeared soft and had new
flesh. Hamon’s wife, upon seeing it, screamed and then fainted. Coming to her
senses, she insisted the hand must be destroyed. Hamon agreed.
On Halloween in October of
1922 the couple decided to give the hand a proper funeral before burning it.
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| Lord Carnarvon |
He wrote he laid the hand in the fireplace and then read a passage from the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
As he closed this book, he and his wife heard a sudden clap of thunder, and then their house was engulfed in total
darkness. A strong wind blew the door open.
Hamon and his wife fell to the
floor and were surrounded by a chill air. They watched in horror as a figure of a woman
entered the room. “She wore the royal apparel of old Egypt, with the serpent of
the House of Pharaohs glittering on her tall headdress.”
The woman’s right arm ended
in a bloody stump. This apparition bent over the fireplace and
then disappeared. Afterward, they discovered the severed hand was gone.
The couple was hospitalized
and treated for severe shock.
Four days later, the count read that Carnarvon’s expedition had discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb, and they planned to enter it despite an ancient warning that was written outside this tomb.
Hamon wrote his old friend a
letter begging him to reconsider, having just experienced the power of the
ancient Egyptians first hand. But Carnarvon ignored his message and died shortly
after entering the tomb from an infected Mosquito bite.
Four days later, the count read that Carnarvon’s expedition had discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb, and they planned to enter it despite an ancient warning that was written outside this tomb.
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| Tutankhamun |
One by one, members of his
expedition died as well—this series of deaths, later became known as the Curse of the Pharaohs.
* Hamon an Irishman was also an astrologer, numerologist, and palmist. He had several pseudonyms: William John Warner, Cheiro, and Count Leigh de Hamons.
* Hamon an Irishman was also an astrologer, numerologist, and palmist. He had several pseudonyms: William John Warner, Cheiro, and Count Leigh de Hamons.
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