What does the phrase “Queen of Spades” associate with you (if you do not take the most common meaning - one of the cards in the deck)? That's right, with the immortal creation of Alexander Pushkin (and the Tchaikovsky opera of the same name based on the novel), and also, probably, with a terrible story from a series of those that many heard at a tender age from peers.
When you do not want to sleep
Perhaps it’s worth recalling children's horror stories, pioneer bonfires, chambers of health camps after lights out, when you do not want to sleep at all, and no one is afraid or scared of fear for a neighbor. In those tales there was a black-and-black room, red boots on severed legs, a kind of stain, inexorably spreading along the wall, and, of course, that same peak lady. They loved (and love) to call it like the way they summon spirits for fortune-telling at Christmas time or how American reckless girls turn to the analogue of the ominous lady - Bloody Mary. By the way, fans of the series “Supernatural” could observe this procedure in the debut season of the cult saga about brothers-hunters. And then jokes with this very spirit did not lead to anything good. The same horror story about the Queen of Spades warns: they say, if you panic when this character appears, you can easily pay with your life!
One of the methods of inviting guests to this infernal person is very common. Before midnight, on the mirror you should depict (scarlet lipstick!) A staircase ending with a symbolic door. The upper light is extinguished, it will be replaced by a candle. The obligatory observance of these conditions is prescribed to us by the horror story about the Queen of Spades. Three times you need to cry: "Queen of spades, come!". If participants in this procedure hear mysterious sounds (steps, laughter) or can see the silhouette on the mirror surface, they must immediately erase the painted staircase. They say that this method first comes to mind when you remember the horror story about the Queen of Spades.
The prototype of the ominous person
Turning to the story that once inspired the Russian classic to write about the unlucky young German Hermann, you can find out that some kind of peak lady scarecrow is quite real. It is quite difficult to find a prototype photo, although the image itself was “copied” by the author from the St. Petersburg Princess who lived to a very old age. Her name was Natalya Golitsyna. A lady had a rare beauty in her youth, she was familiar with many royal people (including Maria Antoinette, who died prematurely on the guillotine), she herself managed to survive 4 (!) Russian rulers.
Alexander Sergeyevich told her story a descendant of the princess. The grandmother, who had allegedly lost to the nines, resorted to female tricks and managed to charm Count Saint-Germain, who was known as a magician and magician. He, imbued with the misfortune of a young beauty, told her the secret of three cards that brought luck to the player. Poor Hermann, who frightened the old heroine of the story to death, was punished: the hag appeared to him in a vision and called a coveted combination, which, however, did not save the applicant. The lady joked very evil. Such is the classic horror story about the Queen of Spades.
So, probably, it’s not without reason that this card (which in some divination methods means a villain), and this character are considered quite dangerous. But you have already been warned, and therefore armed!