Posted on 11/04/2012 9:19:48 AM PST by Stoat
Bjorn-again Christian cursed ABBA star over money, money, money
AN Irish priest who claims Abba owe him money for a gig 33 years ago says he put a curse on the bands singer and turned her into a hermit.
Fr Ray Hannon, 76, from Finglas in Dublin, believes the Swedish supergroup failed to pay his childrens choir £800 for a 1979 concert.
He was so furious he put a curse on Agnetha Faltskog who soon became a virtual recluse on her remote island.
Fr Hannon, who has also performed on the Late Late Show, said: I set up the Rising Star Club in East Wall when I was there years ago and we were selected to play with Abba in the RDS.
It was an honour for us and they agreed to pay us a substantial sum of money. After the concert I was told the money would be in the post, but it never came.
Recluse I would have accepted £80 to play but the way they behaved was a disgrace. I was standing beside Agnetha that night and she looked a very sorrowful woman.
There was another woman sitting on her husband Bjorns knee and it was the night their marriage ended.
Ever since then she has been a recluse and lived a troubled life. Thats the curse of Fr Ray Hannon. Dont get on my bad side.
Fr Hannon said his unique hex has made life a misery for a number of other people who have run afoul of the cursing cleric.
The priest who branded former President Mary McAleese a cherry-picking a la carte Catholic in 1997 made headlines last year too when put a death notice for a DOG in a newspaper.
He shelled out 313 for the unusual obituary after travelling to see his sisters Border collie, Peppee, up to eight times a day for ten years.
The devoted 76-year-old cleric nursed the pet with Whiskey and poitin as it struggled with arthritis, viruses and cancer.
Abba shot to fame when they won the 1974 Eurovision song contest with Waterloo, and their enduringly popular string of worldwide hits also include Mamma Mia and Money, Money, Money. The group, who sold around 370million records in total, rocked the RDS in front of thousands of fans in November 1979 as part of a giant world tour.
Fr Hannon and the Rising Star choir performed I Have A Dream on stage with the pop icons.
However, despite wowing Irish audiences, Abba split in the early 1980s after the married couples divorced.
Since then Agnetha has had a fear of crowds, noise and open spaces and hates to acknowledge her part in pop history. She is known as Garbo the Second in Sweden after the infamous Hollywood actress recluse. She told an interviewer that she doesnt like to go out, doesnt have many friends and likes to talk to her horses.
However, the curse may now be lifted after it emerged that Agnetha is preparing for a comeback and has returned to the recording studio after an absence of more than eight years.
“Priests who curse over money” Ping
He cursed her with a hex? It never fails to astonish me that people still believe in magic in the 21st Century.
travelling to see his sisters Border collie, Peppee, up to eight times a day for ten years.THAT's not a curse?
Oh great, add Frida vs Agnetha to Mary Ann vs Ginger, Bailey vs Jennifer ... (note who I listed first each time). 99 vs Mrs. Peel is a real toughie.
I'm afraid that I would probably need to take them both out to breakfast, lunch, dinner and cocktails several hundred times at minimum before I would be able to even approach such an important decision. This process is all in motion; I'm waiting for a call-back to a message that I left in 1974 ;-)
Frida definitely had an interesting background, she was actually born in Norway, to a Norwegian mother and a German father who was in the Wehrmacht during WWII during the occupation of Norway....obviously, a mother who slept with the enemy wouldn’t be welcome in Norway after the war, so they moved to Sweden.
Agreed, and it astonishes me when people who purport to have devoted their lives to bringing others closer to God appear to have aligned themselves with a far darker force. I wasn't aware that casting hexes was part of Christianity.
At least he didn’t turn her into a newt.
ABBA were a good band, and the ladies were (and still are) beautiful. Hope that line doesn’t get me a “boogity-boogity-boo curse” from the “Father”.
His curse is so strong that I also have a desire to become a virtual recluse on my own remote island.
I wouldn't describe the casting of magic spells as aligning one's self with a "darker force", since there's no "force" there in the first place. It's simply an absurd superstition with no more basis in reality than the pixie dust.
travelling to see his sisters Border collie, Peppee, up to eight times a day for ten years.THAT's not a curse?
If it's not, then perhaps feeding a cancer-stricken dog whisky and poitin is.
The devoted 76-year-old cleric nursed the pet with Whiskey and poitin as it struggled with arthritis, viruses and cancer.
From the Disney animated film, "Tangled", starting at the 3:05 mark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgLx7OgU7zA
I have dreams, like you -- no, really!
Just much less touchy-feely
They mainly happen somewhere warm and sunny
On an island that I own
Tanned and rested and alone
Surrounded by enormous piles of money
He newt too much to do that.
He'd have been working at a severe disadvantage....you can't cause a 'fail' when you're working with so much 'win' ;-)
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