The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

The Flaming Scar

An archeologist had a dream which said that if he gave
a proper burial to an ancient Egyptian king he would be
saved from death by a sign of a flaming scar. One day
he was to take an elevator in Cairo and he spotted a man
with a flaming scar and avoided the elevator. Moments later,
it fell four stories. In Paris on his way to a charity bazaar
he again spotted a man with a flaming scar and avoided him
for later he heard that a fire where he was to speak had
killed dozens. In Chicago the same occurrence and the same
happening (Iroquois Theatre, 1903, hundreds killed) and on
his honeymoon he spotted him again and took his bags off
for had he got on he would have boarded the Titanic, saving
himself not once but four times.

Submitter comment: Brian told me these two stories from his archeology class.

Where learned: MICHIGAN

Date learned: 00001980S