Scarecrow about the Queen of Spades: fantasy and reality

With what do you associate the phrase "peaklady "(if you do not take the most common meaning - one of the cards in the deck)? Correctly, with the immortal creation of Alexander Pushkin (and Tchaikovsky's opera of the same name based on the story), and, perhaps, with a terrible story from the series of those that many heard at a tender age from their peers.

When you do not feel like sleeping

Perhaps, it is worth remembering children's horror stories,pioneer bonfires, chambers of health camps after the lights-out, when you do not want to sleep at all, but nobody is afraid to frighten or frighten the neighbor. In those bikes there appeared a black-and-black room, red boots on severed legs, a spot blatantly spreading across the wall, and, of course, that same lady of spades. She was loved (and loved) to be called like calling spirits for fortune telling on Christmas Eve or as American reckless girls turn to the analogue of an ominous lady - Bloody Mary. This procedure, incidentally, fans of the series "Supernatural" could watch in the debut season of the cult saga of the brothers-hunters. And then to no good jokes with this very spirit did not. Similarly, the horror story about the peak lady warns: they say, if you panic at the appearance of this character, you can easily pay with life!

One of the methods of calling inguests of this infernal person. Before the midnight on the mirror, you should depict (with scarlet lipstick!) A ladder, ending with a symbolic door. The upper light is extinguished, a candle will replace it. Obligatory compliance with these conditions, we prescribe the very horror story about the peak lady. Three times it is necessary to appeal: "The Queen of Spades, come!". If participants of this procedure hear mysterious sounds (steps, laughter) or they can see the silhouette on a mirror smooth surface, you must immediately erase the painted staircase. They say that this method first comes to mind when you recall a scarecrow about the Queen of Spades.

The prototype of an ominous person

Turning to a story that used to beinspired the Russian classic to write about the unlucky young German Hermann, you can find out that it is quite real some kind of lady queen horror story. It is rather difficult to find a photo of the prototype, although the image itself was "decommissioned" by the author with the St. Petersburg princess who survived to deep old age. Her name was Natalia Golitsyna. A rare beauty was possessed by a lady in her youth, she was familiar with many of the monarchs (including Maria Antoinette, who died prematurely on the guillotine), she herself managed to survive the 4 (!) Russian rulers.

Alexandra Sergeevitch was told by her descendantthe princess. Allegedly once lost to the nines, Grandma resorted to female tricks and managed to charm the Count of Saint-Germain, who had been a magician and magician. He, imbued with the misfortune of the young beauty, told her the secret of three cards that brought good luck to the player. Poor Hermann, who frightened the old heroine of the story to death, was punished: karga appeared to him in a vision and called a coveted combination, which, however, did not save the applicant. The lady made a very serious joke. This is how a classic scarecrow about a lady of spades came out.

So, probably, it's no wonder that this card (which in some ways of guessing means a villain), and this character is considered quite dangerous. But you have already been warned, and therefore armed!