The Mummy’s Curse

This mummy board was inspiration for various mythological tales associated with misfortune in the early 20th century. This included being the cause of death of British writer and journalist, Bertram Fletcher Robinson, and even the sinking of the Titanic;

After the tragic sinking, stories persisted that this ‘mummy’ was on board the ill-fated ship and caused the sinking. Of course, the mummy was not even upon the ship at the time, and what’s more is, this is simply a mummy board, not an actual mummy.

Such tales, however, are an interesting glimpse at the mindset of people at the time in the western world; a time of tragedy (an Influenza pandemic, Titanic sinking, etc), and world wars brewing. This, mixed with the western Egyptomania and spiritualism lingering from the Victorian era, caused some to indulge in such theories.