Here is yet another case of a curse mummy. What I find most interesting about these early accounts of evil mummies is that the majority of the cursed mummies are female. Yet, by the time that mummy movies are made, the evil mummies are all male.
Cursed By A Mummy’s Skull
Pittsburgh, Pa., Dec. 27. — Can the proud spirit of an Egyptian queen, dead 3,50 years, exert a vengeful influence from the depths of space upon those responsible for making her mummified skull an object of idle interest in a modern world?
The learned authorities at the local Carnegie Institute do not answer this question. They are too wise to scoff at things they do not understand.
They only know that their acceptance of the mummified head of Queen Hatasu of the eighteenth dynast, line of Thithmes, who reigned in Egypt 1580 years before Christ, from Mrs. Jere Bauman, 466 Neshanuck Ave., New Castle, Pa., relieved Mrs. Bauman of a source of perplexing annoyance.
Seven years ago Mr. and Mrs. Bauman traveled in Egypt. Bauman, with an exploring party, came upon the royal tomb of Queen Hatasu, and he brought the queen’s skull to his home in New Castle. Some three years later, J. Howard Bauman died, and on Oct. 21 of this year Mr. Bauman died.
It was after these bereavements that Mrs. Bauman recalled that while she was in Egypt, natives, with much solemnity, avowed it was ill luck to remove a royal body from its resting place, and strongly advised the Baumans against taking the head of the queen away. These warnings, though emphasized, were dismissed as idle, and the Baumans returned home with the relic.
Now the head, which with its wrappings, weighs about five pounds, rests in a glass case at Carnegie Institute Museum.
Source: The Day Book. Newspaper. December 27, 1915.
