Cursed by Michael Mcmanus
Pencil sketch of a gypsy girl who became obsessed with me. She came to our village with others and stayed a week. She said I was charismatic and that I had a third eye. She was madly in love with me and wanted me to leave with them in their caravan. But the travelling ways weren't for me. As she left she called out a curse and I immediately fell sick. For the next three days I lost all my bodily functions, spoke in a strange language and when I came out of intensive care all my toe nails fell off and have never grown back again.
About the Artist
Michael Mcmanus
I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…
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