A DEADLY JEWEL.
PROPHECY OF BRITANNIA'S DOOM. The Nenes Wiener Tageblatt says: — Is there really any truth in the legendary lore that has ever surrounded the gem talismans of reigning sovereigns? We hope there may be, so far at. least as concerns British Crown jewels. The famous Cullinan diamond, which forms part of the jewel setting of the British Crown, has a remarkable prophecy all to itself. It has been predicted that this stone shall, (One day he ground to dust by a woman, and that, maddened by the attacks of hosts of enemies, s he will scatter its dust to the four winds of heaven. In strange coincidence with this tradition the occulist T.orenz now recalls the fact that the traitoi Botha handed the Cullinan to King Edward, and declares tiiat it was regarded as a stone of fate and' misfortune by all students of occult lore, who were unanimous in their conclusions from their reading of the Book of Destiny that the gem would be destroyed by the hand of a desperate woman. The woman can be none other than proud Britannia, whose downfall is as certain as the coming of' Doomsday. So may it be!
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1916, Page 3
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198A DEADLY JEWEL. Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1916, Page 3
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