The Cursed Painting of The Crying Boy
Could a cursed painting cause 100's out fires
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A old conspiracy theory of a painting called The crying boy has a very peculiar past indeed.
Welcome to peculiar occurrences I'm your host Lilith Nova.
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Giovanni Bragolin popularly known as Bragolin, was the creator of the group of paintings known as Crying Boys. The paintings feature a variety of tearful children looking morosely straight ahead. They are sometimes called "Gypsy boys" although there is nothing specifically linking them to the Romani people.
He was an academically trained painter, working in post-war Venice as painter and restorer, producing the Crying Boy pictures for tourists. At least 65 such paintings were made under the name Bragolin, reproductions of which were sold worldwide. He was not always paid royalties for the reproductions.
The Crying Boy’ was one of a series of paintings by artist Giovanni Bragolin completed in the 1950s. The series depicted young teary-eyed children. and became quite popular all over the world. In the UK alone over 50,000 copies where sold. The children represented were often poor and very beautiful. One boy's image particularly tugs on the heartstrings, his eyes a sad reflection of his soul. He became known as ‘The Crying Boy’. In total Bragolin painted over sixty paintings and up until the early eighties the prints and reprints of his images, continued to be mass produced.
In 1985 the most popular tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom, printed a story that was to cause panic and end the popularity of Bragolin’s work. ‘The Sun’ published an article entitled ‘Blazing Curse of the Crying Boy’. The story described the terrible experience of May and Ron Hall after their home was destroyed by fire. The cause of the fire, was a chip pan that overheated and burst into flames. The fire spread rapidly and destroyed everything on the ground floor. Only one item remained intact, a print of ‘The Crying Boy’ on their living room wall. Distraught at their loss, the devastated couple made the Peculiar claim that the painting was cursed and it, not the chip pan, was the cause of the fire.
Then later A firefighter claimed that he had attended at least fifteen house fires where everything was destroyed. The only thing left complete in each home was the picture of ‘The Crying Boy’. Before long the story gathered momentum and a rash of fires all over the United Kingdom were blamed on the cursed child. In related articles ‘The Sun’ went onto claim;
• A lady in Surrey lost her house to fire 6 months after buying the painting.
• Two sisters in Kilburn had fires in their homes after buying a copy of the painting. One sister even claimed to have seen her painting sway backwards and forwards on the wall.
• A concerned lady on the Isle of Wight attempted to burn her painting without success and then went on to suffer a run of bad luck.
• A gentleman in Nottingham lost his home and his family were injured.
• A pizza parlor in Norfolk was destroyed including every painting on its wall except for one. The crying Boy.
When 'The Sun' reported that even rational firefighters refused to have a copy of 'The Crying Boy ' in their homes, the reputation of the painting was forever lost.
In all these cases, and many more that were reported, the painting of ‘The Crying Boy’ remained unharmed. Eventually, if there was an image of a crying child by any artist in a house that went on fire, the painting was blamed. Some claimed that they experienced bad luck if they attempted to destroy or get rid of their paintings. Others were convinced that it was only a matter of time before disaster struck them. After printing more articles and scare stories, ‘The Sun’ offered a frightened public a solution. On Halloween 1985, hundreds of the paintings were collected together by the newspaper and burnt under the supervision of the Firefighter Brigade.
So why would this seemingly innocent series of paintings be cursed? Before long speculation was started about the paintings. Theories ranged from the little boy being a gypsy child whose family placed a curse on the artist. Some claimed that the child had died in a fire and his spirit was trapped in the painting. The most enduring story claimed the crying boy was adopted by the artist after his own parents died in a fire and that he was very sad when he came to live with the artist. The artist found inspiration in the boy an painting his paintings after him. One day he accidentally set fire to the studio of the artist who had painted him. The artist made the boy leave or in some stories the boy runs off in fear of hat he had done in other stories the boy died in the studio fire with the original painting of the crying boy an his soul was for ever bonded to it. In the stories where the child survives Wherever the little orphan went fires mysteriously followed, earning him the nickname Diablo or Devil. In some stories The boy supposedly survived to early adulthood but was tragically killed when his car crashed and burst into flames. From then onwards it was his image in the painting that carried on his cursed fascination with fire.
In a race to debunk the stories that grew up around the painting of ‘The Crying Boy’ various experts offered their own theories. A frustrated Fire fighter pointed out that in all cases where there had been fires, there was a rational explanation. The fires in almost all cases could be traced back to human carelessness or electrical faults. What they couldn’t explain was the evidence that the paintings often remained intact when everything around them was destroyed. Paintings where later tested an found that the picture is printed onto fire retardant materials. Quite simply, the manufacturer of the print created a fire-resistant product that became a victim of its own success. A expert stated that the string on the back of the painting would be the 1st to deteriorate making the painting fall face down on the floor an in most cases protecting it from fire damage.
Ether way 100's of these paintings have survived Fires Which is pretty Peculiare
So what do you think about this peculiar occurrences. do you think so many of them survived thanks to the fire resistant materials or do you think it's the cure ? Do you think it's peculiar that these paintings have been involved in so many fires or just coincidences? Let me know in the comments below
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