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Horny ghost on the prowl in Malaysia

September 19, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Kuala Lumpur, Sep 18 (ANI): A horny orang minyak, which is supposed to be a ghost in Malay culture, is said to be terrorising about 300 families in Sungai Petani, picking homes where there are young women.

According to Kosmo!, Nurshahirah, 17, revealed that she was awakened at 5.40am on September 14 after she felt a warm sensation on her left ear, and when she opened her eyes she saw an apparition with curly hair and thick moustache standing by her bed.

“I was even more shocked when the ghost took off his kain pelikat and started to fondle himself,” the Star Online quoted her as saying.

Nurshahirah, who lives in Taman Keladi, said she felt powerless to ward off the apparition who started to grope her body, and that it was as though a charm had been placed on her.

In another incident, housewife Fatimah, 42, revealed she heard her two daughters crying out when they were woken up at 5am by dark apparitions that molested them.

Her 15-year-old daughter told her that she had been “violated” by a ghost.

“At first I thought she was talking in her sleep but she insisted that she was molested by a ghost before it moved to the kitchen,” Fatimah said.

She said her 14-year-old, too, cried and ran from the living room, saying a dark apparition had molested her.

“My 14-year-old daughter said she managed to kick the ghost who wore a kain pelikat and black singlet when she felt her body being touched,” she revealed.

“She screamed and the ghost ran out of her room,” she added.

Fatimah said she gave chase with a parang but the apparition disappeared.

She also said the apparition could have placed a charm on her family because none of the neighbours heard her daughters’ screams. (ANI)

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Van Gogh’s ear was lopped by pal Gauguin with a sword, claims new study

May 5, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, May 5 (ANI): Vincent Van Gogh’s ear was cut off by his friend Paul Gauguin during an argument, and the Dutch artist may have cooked up the story that it was his own doing to protect his pal, claims a new study.

It has been previously believed that Van Gogh lopped off part of his left ear in 1888 following a breakdown in his friendship with Gauguin after which he suffered recurrent bouts of mental illness, which led to his suicide.

German art historians have always cast a shadow of doubt over the true nature of events, which were never revealed as both the men kept a “pact of silence” over the incident.

And now experts Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans, in Van Gogh’s Ear: Paul Gauguin and the Pact of Silence, allege that it was the sword assault, not Van Gogh’s madness, which drove him to suicide two years later.

The historians, in Hamburg, cited correspondence between Van Gogh and his brother, Theo, in which the Post-Impressionist painter seemed to suggest what happened without directly dropping the “pact of silence”.

“He writes that it’s lucky Gauguin doesn’t have a machine gun or other firearms, that he’s stronger than him and that his ‘passions’ are stronger,” the Telegraph quoted Kaufmann as saying.

The boffins further drew attention to one of Van Gogh’s sketches of an ear, with the word “ictus”, the Latin word meaning a hit in fencing, and suggested the zigzags above the ear were Gauguin’s Zoro-like sword-stroke.

But many other experts have reasons to disagree with the new account since the historians confessed having no “smoking gun” to validate their claims.

Nina Zimmer, the curator of a major Van Gogh exhibition in Basel, told Le Figaro: “Perhaps they’re right, but all the hypotheses are valid given the lack of material.” (ANI)

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Shakespeare’s last ever portrait could indeed be a 17th century courtier’s, says expert

March 20, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

London, Mar 20 (ANI): A rare portrait of William Shakespeare, believed to be the only surviving portrait, could actually be a painting of 17th century courtier Sir Thomas Overbury, claims an expert.

The Jacobean painting from the family collection of art restorer Alec Cobbe was believed to be of the Shakespeare because it closely resembled the engraving in Shakespeare’s First Folio.

However, Dr Tarnya Cooper, the sixteenth-century curator at the National Portrait Gallery in London, has cast doubt on the claims and believes the portrait greatly resembles Sir Thomas Ovebury, an English poet and essayist.

“If anything, both works, the Folger and Cobbe portraits, are more likely to represent the courtier Sir Thomas Overbury,” the Telegraph quoted her as telling the Times.

An authentic portrait of Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613) was given to the Bodleian Library in Oxford in 1740, and bears a close likeness to the Cobbe painting.

In both pictures the sitter bears distinctive marks, such as a bushy hairline and a slightly disformed left ear.

However, Professor Stanley Wells, chairman of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, is adamant that the painting is of Shakespeare.

“My first impression was scepticism – I am a scholar. But my excitement has grown with the amount of evidence about the painting,” said Wells

“I am willing to go 90 per cent of the way to declaring my confirmation that this is the only life time portrait of Shakespeare. It marks a major development in the history of Shakespearian portraiture,” she added. (ANI)

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