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  • Tecumseh's Curse
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  • Tecumseh's Curse, also known as the Curse of Tecumseh, the Tecumseh Curse, the Curse of Tippecanoe, the Presidential Curse, or the Zero-Year Curse, is a curse that was given to the United States of America by a Shawnee self-entitled Prophet after the Shawnees' defeat at the hands of the Americans after the era known as Tecumseh's War. The curse was given to President Henry Harrison and ever since then a future U. S. President would ultimately die in a year ending in zero whether it was an election or a reelection. It was mentioned in passing by a Ripley's Believe It or Not book and in the media on a few ocassions.
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  • Tecumseh's Curse, also known as the Curse of Tecumseh, the Tecumseh Curse, the Curse of Tippecanoe, the Presidential Curse, or the Zero-Year Curse, is a curse that was given to the United States of America by a Shawnee self-entitled Prophet after the Shawnees' defeat at the hands of the Americans after the era known as Tecumseh's War. The curse was given to President Henry Harrison and ever since then a future U. S. President would ultimately die in a year ending in zero whether it was an election or a reelection. It was mentioned in passing by a Ripley's Believe It or Not book and in the media on a few ocassions.