Is it true that US presidents are dying because of the curse of the Indian leader?

In the United States, belief is widespread: one of the Indian leaders cursed all the American presidents who are elected a year, without a trace of 20, we checked how the prediction is fulfilled.

In different countries, there are a lot of coincidences associated with the policy. For example, according to a half -joking, but from this no less paradoxical pattern in Russia since 1825 Alternate "Hairy" and "bald" rulers. The Americans saw in their political history the coincidence is much more gloomy. One of them: most presidents elected a year, a multiple of 20, Do not live Until the end of its term. After the 2020 elections, which was won by 77-year-old Joe Biden, the popularity of the history of the curse again increased.

So far, the Napoleonic wars went in Europe, on the other side of the ocean, the Union of Indian tribes resisted the expansion of the newly emerged USA. One of the leaders of the indigenous population was a leader named Tekums. After the death of his father and brother in battles with colonialists, he He headed The fight against the Americans. In 1813 Tekums Died On the territory of modern Canada in the battle with the Thames, which led to the collapse of the Indian Union.

There are different versions of when and who exactly imposed a curse on future American leaders. The most popular of them says: In 1811, Indiana Governor William Harrison simultaneously negotiated with Tekums and his half -brother tenskvatava and prepared an attack. This not quite honest tactics allowed the Americans to win the battle of Tipkano on November 7, 1811. Tenskvatava, who was a religious leader popular among the Indians, allegedly imposed a curse for betrayal. Another version attributes The "authorship" of the curse itself Tekums.

The curse allegedly began to work after three decades. In 1840, Harrison, who defeated the Indians, became the ninth president of the United States, and a month later died from pneumonia. According to the coincidence, a similar fate was waiting for many leaders for whom most Americans voted in a year, a multiple of 20. The winner of 1860 by Abraham Lincoln Shot In 1865. James Garfield elected in 1880 died A year after a gunshot wound, which he received as a result of the attack. A similar fate Waited William McKinli, who most votes in 1900. Warren Harding winning the 1920 election He died From a heart attack in 1923. The winner of the 1940 presidential campaign Franklin Roosevelt died In 1945, after hemorrhage in the brain, and John Kennedy Shot In 1963, three years after his election.

Some believe that the curse has ended on this, but the subsequent presidents elected in the "round" years had no easier. Ronald Reagan (1980) I survived The attempt in 1981, and the grenade thrown into George Bush Jr. (2000) during his performance in 2005 in Tbilisi, I did not break. About any incidents with the winner of the 2020 elections, Joe Biden, which could be associated with a curse, has not yet been reported. However, in fact, not only Reagan and Bush Jr., who survived the end of his presidency, violate the curse: for example, Lincoln died during his second term, and Roosevelt, who won his third elections in 1940, died after being elected for the fourth term.

At the moment, historians do not know either written evidence or the memoirs of contemporaries that one of the leaders of the Indian Union cursed Harrison and all the presidents elected every 20 years after him. For the first time of the death of American leaders Tied With the curse of Tekums or Tenskvatava in the periodic edition of Believe it or not! 1931. The pattern noticed by his authors quickly became popular: it was mentioned Before the elections 1940, as well as journalists wrote about it Ed Cotterba And Lloyd Shirer In anticipation of voting in 1960 and 1980, respectively.

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Read on the topic:

1. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-curse-off-tecumseh/
2. https://skepticalinquirer.org/2019/11/the-presidential-nd-t-the-election-OF-2020/
3. Robert S. Pohl, Urban Legends & Historic Lore of Washington D.C.
4. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ding-tecumseh-97830806/