The Black Marble Griffon & Other Disturbing Tales by E.W. Farnsworth

Author:E.W. Farnsworth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: monsters, scary stories, scary creepy, grave yards, scary horror, graverobbers
Publisher: Zimbell House Publishing

The Brass Gong

Symbol of wisdom and hieroglyph for all Egyptian prepositions, the owl sign, permeates ancient cartouches, documents, and glyphs. Uninitiated priests casually pronounced the glyph as if it were not magical. In fact, though, with each proper utterance the owl sign brought either good fortune or, more usually, misfortune to the priest and to all who heard him.

Amenhotshepsibu, who might have become Pharaoh, died of plague after pronouncing the owl glyph correctly. His consort, Amenhotshepsa, also died of plague, which became general, killing over one-fourth of all Egyptians. From then forward, priests purposely mispronounced the owl glyph to avoid invoking its curse.

All tokens of Amenhotshepsibu’s existence were purged from all public records. The only remaining records were buried with him in his minor pyramid, which was recently discovered in the Valley of the Kings. The correct pronunciation of the owl glyph and the tale of its terrible consequences remained buried for three millennia.

Recently a team of young, talented Egyptologists recreated the correct pronunciation of the owl glyph though forensic linguistics. Unaware of the curse that they were about to invoke, the precocious Egyptologists uttered the owl sign with the correct pronunciation at an international symposium in Cairo.

The results of their demonstration caused a sensation. Not one attendee of that symposium survived; instead, all died of plague. The curse of Amenhotshepsibu was alive in the world again. Because the symposium was re-broadcast worldwide, plague raged globally in the name of the owl.

Of all the Egyptologists who were subjected to her colleague’s pronunciation of the owl sign, only Professor Nancy Higgenbotham, of the University of New Hampshire, remained alive. Analysts opined that her nerve-center deafness was what saved her. Because she could speak, and because she was aware of the latest forensic techniques, the “deaf professor” was able to reconstruct and pronounce the owl sign correctly, though her pronunciation had a slightly different linguistic intonation than had been offered by her colleagues at the symposium. Miraculously, her pronunciation’s effects negated the effects of her colleagues’ reconstruction. Her pronunciation not only stopped plague, but it also provided immunity to all diseases.

Making use of this discovery to save lives, disease control operatives destroyed all media that contained the original pronunciation of the owl sign, and then they substituted Professor Higgenbotham’s pronunciation of the owl sign. As a result, the global pandemic was arrested in all regions where the Professor’s intonation of the sign of the owl could be heard. The recording of her pronunciation was ordered to be administered through the public affairs systems of all clinics and hospitals in the world.

Governments ordered that recordings of the Professor’s owl sign be played at large outside events and on street corners. Commercial entrepreneurs created inexpensive recordings of the Professor’s voice that could be used in universities, schools, day care centers, and home nurseries. As a result, raging plague burned out and then vanished.

Ironically, the deaf professor never heard her own pronunciation of the owl sign. Nevertheless, she became a global celebrity and an instant authority on ancient curses of all kinds.

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