Luck chain letter. Death-lottery type. List of names (27, three lined out). US, 1974.

This prayer has been sent to you for good luck. The original copy came from the Netherlands.
It has been around the world 9 times. The luck has been sent to you. You are to receive good luck within 9 days of receiving this letter. It is no joke. You will receive it in the mail.

Send 20 copies of this letter to people you think need good luck. Please do not send money.
Do not keep this letter. It must leave within 95 hours after you receive it.

A B.S. Officer received $70,000. Don Elliot received $160,000, but he lost it because he
broke the chain. While in the Phillipines, General Walsh lost his life six days after
he received this letter. He failed to circulate the prayer. However, before his death,
he received $775,000 which he won.

Please send 20 copies and then see what happens on the 4th day after. Add your name to the
bottom of the list and leave the top name off when copying this letter.

This chain comes from Venezuela, was written by St. Aptine de Cade a missionary from South
America.

Since the chain must make a tour of the world, you must make 20 copies identical to this one
and send it to your friends, parents, or acquaintances, and after a few days you will get
a surprise. This is true, even if you are not superstitious.

Take note of the following: Constantine Dies received the chain in 1953. He asked his
secretary to make 20 copies and send them. A few days later he won the lottery of $2
million in his country.

Carlos Brandt, an office employee, received the chain. He forgot it and lost it. A few
days later he lost his job. He found the chain and sent it out to 20 people. Nine days
later he got a better job.

Zorin Barrachilli received the chain. Not believing it, he threw it away. Nine days
later he died. For no reason whatsoever should this chain be broken. In nine days
you will get a surprise.
                                   Judy Van Aalten
E. & W. Schmalz                    Arline Robbins
P. & H. Lic [?]                    M. Buynovsky
G. & D. Kalman                     B. Robichaud
P. & M. Edelstein                  A. Boudreau
H. Kirsner                         M. Bevis
M. Lambert                         S. Battaini
J. Lambert                         P. Battaini
P. Brown                           S. B[?]
C. Beasley                         C. Con[?]
E. Spindel                         E. Eff
Phyllis Proctor
John Dyer Morgan
Modesto Antonio Guerra
Carlos Guerra
C. Rosen
Susan Honig

Photocopy (gen. 3++) of typed original. Annotated: "Rec'd 10/74". First three names crossed out. Last three names written. Supplied by the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress to DWV 2/20/98. Keystrokes preserved. Was 74-10a.

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