How Did The Curse Get Started?
As we say every rise face a fall, same thing happened with Opal. The stone which was considered the sign of luck started bringing curse. People started believing that wherever this stone goes it brings bad luck. It all started with Sir Walter Scott’s novel “Anne of Geierstein”. The novel’s heroine buys a cursed opal which she wears in her hair and later, she dies. And the legand of the unlucky Opal was born. After this, Opal’s sales reduced rapidly because people were afraid to buy it. There is also a story that in the 19th century, King Alfonso XII of Spain had received an opal ring from a vengeful Comtesse he had previously courted. The King presented the ring to his wife, who had greatly admired it, and shortly thereafter she died mysteriously. Well after these incidents this superstition started that Opal is cursed and whoever wears it will die soon. This superstition is still very famous and many nations believe that Opal is highly cursed and nobody should wear it.