Queen of Spades

The Queen of Spades, once a beauty, naïvely fell deeply in love with a young man. He committed a heinous act. And death loomed over the cavalier. Trying to avoid death, but afraid of punishment, the young man betrayed his love. Claiming that the enchantress, befuddling his senses, forced him to commit this sin. The people angrily exclaimed: "A witch, burn her!" Then they bound the beauty. On the scaffold, overwhelmed with anguished tears, the maiden could not suppress her pain. It was not the fear of death that tortured her, but the slander of him whom she loved with all her soul, for whom she would have easily parted with her life. The executioner, with a smirk on his face, holding a burning torch in his hand, was approaching the maiden. The maiden, looking with tearful eyes, begged for mercy, but... a cold-blooded move... and the flame crept up with a crack. And suddenly horror enveloped her heart, not understanding her guilt, she pleaded for punishment from the heavens. Suddenly the flame engulfed her body and consumed her completely, and only the crackle and silence of oblivion became the girl's eternal companions. So the fire burned down, and the ashes scattered around, and people still looked in horror at the fragile, untouched by fire, body lying in a pile of glowing embers. The maiden perished, the fire did not touch her body, and the heavens or hell heard her pleas. From that time on, a curse was placed on all the inhabitants of the lands. All the evil that the girl asked for returned to her as a curse. And through centuries, seas, valleys, mountains, rivers - her revenge will find you too!