The curse of the spinning statue at Manchester Museum

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> Campbell Price, a curator at the museum on Oxford Road, said he believes there may be a spiritual explanation to the spinning statue.

> “In Ancient Egypt they believed that if the mummy is destroyed then the statuette can act as an alternative vessel for the spirit. Maybe that is what is causing the movement.”

FFS.

> “But it has been on those surfaces since we have had it and it has never moved before. And why would it go around in a perfect circle?”

Off the top of my head: floor joists have moved causing more vibration now than in the past.

About it moving in a circle: that's what physics does. It's lovely. Here's a diagram of a ruler placed on the fingers of two hands, where you move the hands together. The ruler slides, and the hands meet in the middle. (Good Grief I need to learn how to express a simple idea.)

(http://imgur.com/ZQ6RQkj)

It's just a smart advertising.

It is immensely depressing that a museum (a place of learning and wonder) is using such tactics (appealing to the worst kind of ignorance) to drum up trade.

Absolutely. But still, the final goal is fine : if more people go to this museum to see this "haunted statue" and learn new things, then I guess it's okay.

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