Mummy Mystery.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXIV, Issue 3750, 6 April 1908, Page 2

Mummy Mystery.

Can a mummy be recalled to life? British Museum officials are courteous, but they are not communicative on the subject. Yet it is understood that there are a number of men and women in London who firmly believe the British Museum is at present the centre of many occult and mysterious manifestations. The seeker after the occult, from Fleet street, sought wisdom from “Light,” but even “Light”— the accepted paper of spiritualists—was in outer darkness concerning the lady. Then the seeker sought the Psychial Research Society—and was rewarded.

It appears that the lady is not, as has been said, a princess of Egypt, she is a priestes of Amen-Ra, and flourished in the year 1600 R.C. Her sarcophagus was brought to England in the eaiiy sixties, and the coffin and the mummy were deposited at the British Museum.

According to all accounts the mummy has brought death and misfortune to everyone who had anything to do with it. A certain well known West End photographer, for instance, was commissioned to photograph the portrait on the sarcophagus and found when he developed the negative that it was not the photograph of the typical wooden or cardboard type, such as he imagined he had taken, but that of a living woman, w r ho was staring straight before her, with an expression of singular and extreme malevolence. Within a few days the photographer died in a mysterious manner. So runs the tale. But it must be admitted that the British Museum people smile when you mention the priestess of Amen-Ra.