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With two exceptions, since 1840, U.S. Presidents who have been elected in years ending in zero have been killed or have died of natural causes while in office. (And one exception literally came within an inch of death.)
, who was elected in 2020 and became the oldest person to assume the office thus far , was still alive and well as of this update .Those who look to make sense of eerie coincidences have come up with an explanation to account for this string of deaths: an ancient Indian death curse, supposedly administered by Tecumseh himself after suffering defeat at the hands in William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.
According to lore, the famed Indian chief cursed the Great White Fathers. No explanation is given for why the chief’s curse would only affect one presidency in five, but one cannot, after all, expect the fanciful to cover everything. Another version attributes the curse to Tenskwatawa , a Shawnee medicine man who was half-brother to Tecumseh. The hex was supposedly his revenge for the death of his half-sibling. “Harrison will die I tell you,” the Prophet reportedly said. “And after him, every Great Chief chosen every 20 years thereafter will die. And when each one dies, let everyone remember the death of my people.” Stirring words indeed, but there’s no reason to suppose they were actually uttered. No record of either Tecumseh or Tenskwatawa laying a whammy on American presidents has yet surfaced — it’s all undocumented folktale at this point and is as likely just someone’s imaginative backstory to the inexplicable as it is anything else. Folks have been taking note of this string of presidential deaths for quite some time — it’s not a new snippet of spooky information recently dropped into the lap of the American people. A Ripley’sbook published in 1934 noted the coincidental twenty-year pattern of presidential deaths between 1840 and 1920, with question marks in place of a name for the upcoming 1940 entry indicating the presumption of a continuing pattern. The pattern did, of course, hold true again when Franklin Roosevelt, who had been re-elected in 1940, filled in that blank by dying in office in 1945. As to what to make of the “curse,” it’s interesting to note that since 1840, only one President other than those supposedly felled by this ill-wishing has died in office: Zachary Taylor, who was elected in 1848 and died in 1850 of a stomach ailment. Also interesting is the notion that the curse is a prescient one, as two presidents who won elections in years ending in ‘0’ — Lincoln and Roosevelt — did not die until after beginning subsequent terms in office. Apparently the death curse foresaw re-election for both of them. The key to all this presidential demising possibly lies more within the realm of the stars than the rumored words of a dead Indian chief. Or at least so the astrologers would have us believe. According to Mark Dodich, an astrologer who has attempted to analyze the Curse of Tecumseh, the reason behind this force is one of “cosmic coincidence,” not Native American hexing. Dodich claims the curse’s effects overlap with the alignment of Jupiter and Saturn, whose orbits have lined up every twenty years.— President Ronald Reagan — is explained by the sign the alignment of these two planets occurred under. Alignments under the earth signs have led to dead presidents; but Reagan’s term occurred under an air sign, accounting for his survival. According to Dodich, year 2000’s Jupiter-Saturn twinning once again occurred under the earth sign of Taurus, a phenomenon he says won’t happen again for another 600 years. It thus marks the end of a deadly cycle; but if Dodich was right about this curse thing, it would have to sound the death knell for another president first.Update [Aug. 31, 2022]: Updated to acknowledge the election of President Joe Biden in 2020.
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