Curses Foiled Again
The BBC ran a bizarre story the other day. People in the Greek village of Moudros are finally getting a good night’s sleep after a group of nearby monks agreed to lift a 100-year-old curse placed on the village.
Greece and Turkey don’t get a long very well, and at the turn of the century some angry villagers in Moudros (which was part of the Ottoman empire at the time) killed some Turks and threw their bodies in a well. That well just happened to be on property owned by the Koutloumousi monastery.
Thinking the monks were responsible for the murder, the Turks responded by massacring the monks and setting fire to the buildings.
In retaliation, the two monks who survived chanted a curse that the villagers of Moudros would “never sleep again.” And for the past 100 years on Aug. 23 the monks have assembled to chant the curse anew.
Finally, though, the monks have decided to give the villagers a break. A century of curses is enough apparently. This year on Aug. 23 a delegation of monks will travel to the village and formally lift the curse.
See, we really can all get along.
Source:
Monks lift curse on Aegean villagers. The BBC, July 24, 2001.
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