Flowers for good luck, money and family happiness
Spathiphyllum.
If you have been single for a long time or constantly quarrel with your husband, plant spathiphyllum, because it’s not for nothing that its second name is “Women’s Happiness.”
Violet.
The violet is called the flower of peace. It has been noticed that in a house where violets grow and bloom, household members very rarely quarrel. The violet also symbolizes eternal devotion. If you are going through a difficult period in life, get a white violet, it helps you endure mental suffering more easily.
Chinese rose or hibiscus.
Hibiscus is a symbol of Malaysia, the emblem of Hawaii. There this plant is considered a symbol of peace, and also of passion.
- Flowers on the balcony
Wax ivy, hoya.
In many countries, this plant serves as... a declaration of love, a green valentine for Valentine's Day. The best place for hoya in the house is the bedroom.
Myrtle.
The best gift for a young family. Myrtle will bring peace, happiness and understanding to your home.
Aichrizon.
The popular name aichrizon speaks for itself: tree of happiness, tree of love.
Calathea.
Calathea will preserve family happiness. Calathea is a very good gift for those who are about to divorce.
Chlorophytum.
This unprepossessing plant, by its very appearance in the house, promises peace and mutual understanding. This is also a good choice for an office space where there are many different people working with whom you need to be able to get along. Homemade chlorophytum purifies the air: place it in a room with new furniture or in an apartment where renovations have just been completed, and the flower will absorb all the chemicals from the air!
Oxalis, or sorrel.
Despite such a sour name, oxalis can brighten up the life of a lonely person. It is believed that oxalis helps the owner find true love.
- Violets at home: growing on a windowsill
Anthurium.
This is a male talisman. Anthurium is also called “male happiness” because it has a beneficial effect on potency. Well, at least that's what they say. And that’s why such a flower has no place in the kitchen...
Akalifa
The plant gives the strong half of humanity masculinity and tenacity of character, and the fair half - softness and femininity. Cyclamen drives away nightmares.
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Mystical paintings
Claude Monet's painting “Water Lilies” is one of the masterpieces of world culture. I wonder if the artist himself thought when he painted the picture that decades later it would have such a bad reputation? But the thing is that behind the picture there is a whole trail of fires. Moreover, the first happened at Monet’s own home, literally immediately after finishing work on the painting. The fire in the workshop where “Water Lilies” was located was quickly put out, and the painting itself was not damaged. Soon the owners of an entertainment establishment in Montmartre became the owners of the painting, and a month later the owners were packing their bags, leaving the burnt cabaret building. By the way, the painting itself was in the suitcase - one of several things that were taken out of the building engulfed in flames. After this, the painting was acquired by Oscar Schmitz, a philanthropist who lived in Paris. He was luckier than the previous owners - his house stood untouched for a whole year... A year later, only ashes remained from the house, and the fire, according to eyewitnesses, started in the very room where the Monet painting hung. By the way, the canvas was again among the few things that were saved. And again the painting moved to a new owner. This time not to the sole owner, but to a museum - the New York Museum of Modern Art. And the fire did not bypass it - it happened 4 months later, this time the canvas was quite seriously damaged.
Another painting that is constantly accompanied by trouble is “Venus with a Mirror” by Diego Velazquez. The painting's first owner, a Spanish merchant, went bankrupt, his trade deteriorating every day until most of his goods were captured by pirates at sea and several more ships sank. Selling everything he had by auction, the merchant also sold the painting. It was acquired by another Spaniard, also a merchant who owned rich warehouses in the port. The money for the canvas had barely been transferred when the merchant's warehouses caught fire from a sudden lightning strike. The owner was ruined. And again there is an auction, and again the painting is sold along with other things, and again a wealthy Spaniard buys it... Three days later he was stabbed to death in his own house during a robbery. After that, the painting could not find its new owner for a long time, its reputation was too damaged, and the canvas traveled to different museums, until in one of them a mentally ill tourist rushed at the painting with a knife and ruined it.
The misfortunes that are associated with different paintings are completely different. For example, many owners of “The Adoration of the Magi” by Pieter Bruegel the Elder got rid of the painting, believing that it was associated with infertility in the family. It is interesting that the artist’s cousin, with whom he painted this canvas, also suffered from infertility, which seemed to be transmitted through the painting to the families where it was kept. Children did not appear even where women had previously given birth without problems.
Of course, the fame of the famous “La Gioconda” by Leonardo da Vinci : the painting supposedly has an incomprehensible effect on those who look at it for a long time. This was noted by the 19th century writer Stendhal, who, after admiring the canvas for a long time, fainted. The caretakers of the Louvre note that such fainting spells are not uncommon; they happen to visitors quite often, especially in front of the portrait of the Mona Lisa. And da Vinci himself, according to the recollections of his loved ones, was as if obsessed with the painting, constantly trying to correct details, redraw, etc. And while working, he often experienced a breakdown and became depressed. Mysterious events also happened to those who inadvertently “offended” the famous painting by Edvard Munch “The Scream”. The cost of this painting reaches 70 million dollars. And, perhaps, collectors would be immensely happy to have this painting in their private collection: if not for one thing: they say that the painting seems to be taking revenge on all its offenders. For example, a museum employee who accidentally dropped a canvas then suffered from unbearable headaches for a long time, which ultimately led him to commit suicide. Another museum employee, who also dropped the painting, ended up in intensive care a few days later after a terrible car accident: almost everything was broken - his arms, legs, ribs, pelvic bones... One of the museum visitors who touched the painting was soon burned alive at home in fire time. Perhaps much of what is said about this painting is fiction, but there are dozens of stories about people who somehow came into contact with the painting, then became very ill, fell into severe depression and even died. Many people associate this impact of the canvas with the life of the artist himself. Munch survived the death of almost all his loved ones: his mother died of tuberculosis - Munch was 5 years old; his beloved sister died suddenly when he was 14; a brother soon died, and another sister fell ill with schizophrenia. The artist himself experienced depression and severe nervous breakdowns.
Many mysterious stories are associated with portraits of people. The sudden death or serious illness of the people depicted on the canvases was not even such a surprise for some. For example, the relatives of the boy Vasya were categorically against the artist, who had been so persuading them, to paint Vasya in one of his paintings. They were firmly convinced that this was a great misfortune. The boy still posed, but the result is this: Perov’s painting “Troika ,” where Vasya walks in the middle, became very famous, and the boy suddenly died after a very short time.
There are quite a lot of similar stories. For example, V. Borovikovsky painted a portrait of Maria Lopukhina, and she died untimely from consumption. Since then, it has sometimes been said that more than one young noblewoman could do this without any reason, just by looking at a portrait. Now the painting is exhibited at the Tretyakov Gallery, and the rumors seem to have stopped.
Sudden death befell the models of such famous artists as Modigliani, Rubens, Rembrandt... Saskia, Rembrandt’s wife, who can be seen, for example, in the painting “Flora,” and four of his children, whom he loved to paint, also died, three of them still in infancy.
The artist’s second wife, Hendrike Stoffels, also died suddenly; he painted her, perhaps, more than anyone else. It’s a similar story with those close to the artist Rubens. His models were invariably his beloved wife and daughter. Both died suddenly: the wife at 34, the daughter at 12. Among Russian artists, misfortune haunted Serov, Repin, Somov and others. Their sitters died soon after work on paintings with their images was completed.
The girls depicted in the portraits died quickly and completely unexpectedly. "Lady in Blue" Somov
Death also overtook those whom Ilya Repin painted. In particular, the day after finishing work on the portraits, three famous personalities died at once: the composer Mussorgsky, Stolypin and the surgeon Pirogov.
And eight more of the artist’s models died, although not the next day, but within a very short time. One of the paintings that evokes fear is kept in the Hermitage. This is an ancient icon depicting Christ. Previously, it was put on public display, but then it was removed from the exhibition, since museum workers were sure that a series of tragic deaths of employees who worked in the hall where the icon hung were connected precisely with it. One of the specialists who examined the painting suggested that energy waves emanate from the canvas, and at such a high frequency that the effect on humans is strongly negative. Someone expressed the opinion that the icon belongs to the brush of a person who had strong extrasensory abilities, therefore the energy is directed specifically at people of such strength, and it is very dangerous for an ordinary person to be near the painting. Damn picture
This painting was painted by Bill Stoneham. The scandal began after one of the exhibitions. Mentally unbalanced people viewing this picture became ill, they lost consciousness, began to cry, etc. It all started in 1972, when the painting was drawn by Bill Stoneham from an old photograph of him at age five found in the Chicago house where he lived at the time. The painting was first shown to the owner and art critic of the Los Angeles Times, who later died. Maybe it was a coincidence, maybe not. The painting was then acquired by actor John Marley (died 1984). Then the fun begins. The painting was found in a landfill among a pile of garbage. The family who found her brought her home and already on the first night the little four-year-old daughter ran into her parents’ bedroom screaming that the children in the picture were fighting. The next night the children in the picture were outside the door. The next night, the head of the family set the video camera to be activated by movement in the room where the painting hung. The video camera went off several times. The painting was put up for auction on eBay. Soon, eBay administrators began receiving alarming letters with complaints about deteriorating health, loss of consciousness, and even heart attacks. There was a warning on eBay, but people are notoriously curious and many ignored the warning. The text of the message is shown in one of the images. The painting was sold for 1025 USD, the starting price was 199 USD. The page with the painting was visited over 30,000 times, but mostly just for fun. It was bought by Kim Smith, who lived in a small town near Chicago. He was just looking for something for his newly renovated art gallery on the Internet. When he came across "Hands Resist Him" he initially thought that it was painted in the forties and would be perfect for him as an exhibit. This would have been the end of the story, but letters now began to arrive at Smith's address. Many of them were, as before, with stories about feeling unwell after viewing the film, but there were also those who wrote about the evil emanating from it. Others demanded that it simply be burned. Even Ed and Lorraine Warren, famous for exorcizing demons at the Amityville House in 1979, offered his services. Some even recalled the famous Satillo murder in the forested hills of California. The ghosts of two children are said to haunt the house in the hills. Psychics claimed: “We saw a boy. He wore a light T-shirt and shorts. His sister was always in the shadows. He seemed to be protecting her. Their names were Tom and Laura and they looked exactly like the children in the picture. The Crying Boy Of all the mysterious coincidences, few seem as eerie or as disturbing to any rational mind as those surrounding the Crying Boy fires, which dominated the front pages of newspapers across the UK in the summer and autumn of 1985. Briefly, the story was this: after a series of unrelated fires, it was discovered that the same painting - a cheap reproduction of a crying boy - was present in each of the rooms where the fire started. This detail might have been dismissed as an absurd coincidence if it had not also been found that in every case without exception, this painting escaped damage while everything around it burned. The unusual phenomenon became public knowledge at the beginning of the summer when a Yorkshire fireman, Peter Hall, told a major newspaper that fire brigades across Northern England were finding countless copies of this very painting that had remained untouched by a fire that had started for no apparent reason. Hall decided to spill the beans only after his own brother. Roy, who refused to believe the story, deliberately bought a copy of The Crying Boy to disprove its curse, and shortly afterwards his house in Swallonest, south Yorkshire, was burnt to the ground for unknown reasons. Seeing that the painting lay completely intact in the middle of charred ruins. Roy Hall hastily crushed her with his boot. Following the publication of this interview, a British daily received a flood of letters and calls from the owners of the Boy who had suffered in the same way. Dora Brand, from Mitcham, in Surrey, saw her house reduced to ashes six weeks after she bought the painting, and although she owned more than a hundred others, this was the only one that survived. Sandra Craske, from Kilbourne, said she, her sister, her mother and their friend were all burned after each had their own copy. Other information came from Leeds, Nottingham, Oxfordshire and the Isle of Wight. On the twenty-first of October Parillo's Pizza Palace, in Great Yartmouth, Norfolk, was burned to the ground, although The Boy was left in excellent condition. Three days later the Godbers of Rinthorpe in South Yorkshire also lost their home; During the fire, the reproduction that hung in their living room remained undamaged, although all the other paintings burned to the ground. The next day in Heswapple, Merseyside, a pair of paintings hanging in the living and dining room of the Amos family's home survived the entire building being torn apart by a gas explosion. It has not been 24 hours since there was a new report of the Crying Boy fire, this time from the home of former fireman Fred Trower from Telford, Shropshire. One newspaper suggested that all owners of the painting arrange a mass burning of it. While most in Britain believed the whole story was a long-running joke, others were less sure. By November, some of the former owners of “The Boy” had acquired nervous illnesses, because it always seemed to them that the “spirit” of the painting they had destroyed was now intending to take revenge. One woman from Leeds was convinced that the painting was responsible for the deaths of her husband and three sons, and another, Mrs. Woodward from Forest Hill in London, felt that the sudden deaths of her son, daughter, husband and mother were connected with The Boy. occurred as a result of accidents unrelated to each other, but related to fires. When several fire brigades were asked to comment on the growing hysteria over the painting, they refused to discuss the matter or participate in the various mass burnings that took place across the country. Nevertheless, tragedies continued to happen. On the twelfth of November, Malcolm Vaughan from Gloucestershire helped his neighbor burn another “Crying Boy”. He returned home and found that the entire living room was already on fire, which had ignited inexplicably. A few weeks later, a mysterious flame ripped through a house in Weston nad Maroy, Avon, killing its occupant, sixty-seven-year-old William Armitage, and the case made headlines when the painting was found intact next to the charred body of an old man. One of the firefighters who tried to put out the fire later said: “I never believed in curses before. But when you see an intact painting in a completely burnt-out room, and it is the only thing that was not damaged, then you understand that this has crossed all boundaries.” Since ancient times and even to this day, some religious teachings prohibit drawing portraits of people. It is believed that the connection between a person and his image is so strong that any damage to the painting can cause irreparable harm to the person’s health and life. In any case, it is pointless to refute that the paintings carry a certain energy. Another question is whether paintings can really influence a person’s life, ruining him, leading to severe illness or even death? And what is this: suggestion, supernatural force or just a coincidence?
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Horseshoe
For many centuries, the horseshoe has been a symbol of good luck and there are several legends about why it brings happiness to the home.
From the editor . One of the legends speaks of Ancient Egypt, where during major feasts there was always a chariot drawn by horses, and the Pharaoh was in it.
The horses were carefully prepared for such an important task and horseshoes were nailed to their hooves. While riding, horseshoes often fell off their hooves and were picked up by townspeople. The one who picks up the horseshoe that fell from the king’s horse will instantly gain untold riches and become the happiest, because they were made of gold and by selling them you will immediately become rich.
Another one talks about the Middle Ages, where the devil came to a blacksmith master and demanded that he nail the horseshoes on his hooves, but the master did not shy away and nailed the devil to the wall. A few days later, the devil made a promise to the blacksmith that he would never get close to people who had a horseshoe hanging in their house.
From that time on, people began to hang horseshoes over the entrance to their houses, protecting it from the unclean spirit.
But different nationalities place the horseshoe in different ways:
- Eastern peoples believe that a horseshoe should hang over the door with its horns up, so it will collect only good energy and material wealth into the “vat.”
- In Rus' they believed that if you hang a horseshoe with its horns down, then any bad energy will not accumulate inside the “vat”, but will roll off it, thereby protecting the internal energy in the house and the material wealth of the family.
Objects and things in the house that attract bad luck and repel money
Mass distribution
After the portrait of the gypsy was published in the American weekly, the editor began to receive a huge number of letters in which people thanked the publishers of the newspaper for such a gift. All the letters told us that as soon as a portrait from a newspaper got into the house, the life of the owners changed radically for the better: some people’s incurable illnesses went away, many people’s businesses brought unexpected income, some were promoted at a rapid pace in their careers, and For some, family quarrels have stopped. In a word, they were all grateful for such a gift. Such a crazy success could not go unnoticed. Everyone around was just talking about the portrait of a gypsy, bringing happiness. Due to the fact that the story became famous, the photo of this girl was published in other publications. It should be noted that everyone who published a portrait of a gypsy in their publications began to gain popularity at a rapid pace. For example, the Daily News newspaper, which first published this portrait, is today the most successful in the United States. Subsequently, the beautiful black-haired girl, who was talked about so much in America, also appeared on the pages of European newspapers and magazines.
Portrait of a black-haired girl – a legacy of the Carbone family
This relic was passed down in the Carbone family from one generation to another, and everyone had a wonderful, happy life, healthy children, and material wealth. All members of this family achieved what they wanted in life. They say about such people that luck follows them. And each of them connects their well-being with the beautiful black-haired gypsy, whose image still hangs on the wall in Carbone’s house. The portrait that brings happiness has truly helped all generations of this family. As eyewitnesses confirm, all Carbones were lucky not only in their personal lives and work, but also in gambling. As Mario Carbone said, they gave copies made from this painting to their friends. The result was amazing. It was then that it became known that this portrait helps not only the Carbone family, but also everyone who believes in the miraculous power of this painting.
“Love Letters” – Replica (“Replica of “Love Letters”), Richard King
The painting, currently on display in the lobby of a hotel in Austin, Texas, may have caused the death of 4-year-old Samantha Houston 131 years ago. The girl fell to her death from the stairs in 1897. Many contemporaries of the tragedy insisted on the striking similarity between the victim and the heroine depicted on the canvas.
Since then, hotel guests and employees regularly notice changes in facial expression in the painting, linking mysticism with the machinations of the spirit of the deceased child.
Experiment with milk
In the mid-80s of the 20th century, in Russia, scientists accidentally left a glass of milk near a copy of Shishkin’s painting “The Ship Grove”.
To their great amazement, the milk did not turn sour during the day, despite the fact that the room was quite warm. It was decided to conduct an experiment. They put a glass of milk next to the reproductions of famous artists and waited. The milk soured at different rates. It deteriorated most quickly in the paintings of surrealists and abstractionists. To everyone's surprise, it only took him a few hours. However, there were paintings next to which the milk did not spoil for a long time. These were the works of Aivazovsky and Levitan, who painted Russian nature.
However, scientists were most surprised by the work of Shishkin and Kuindzhi. Near them, the milk remained fresh the longest. Thus, it was concluded that paintings are capable of transmitting their own energy to the outside. In the same way, paintings transmit their energy to people. The artist who creates his creation puts his soul into it, and fills the picture with either positive emotions or negative ones. Landscapes are most often imbued with the joy of life, which explains the special sympathy people have for such paintings.
