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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:30, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
... that the citizens of Târgoviște put a jinx on boyarEmanoil Băleanu(pictured), which was seen as fulfilled when his wife died in childbirth? Ghica & Roman, p. 217: Când tânărul Manolache Băleanu a fost dus la curte de Kirkireu, vodă Suțu i-a lăsat barbă și i-a dat de nevastă pe fiică-sa, domnița Catinca, înzestrând-o cu moșia orașului Târgoviștea. Vezi, atunci s-au sculat târgoviștenii cu mic, cu mare, [...] s-au dus la biserică la Sfântul Niculae cel Sărac din strada Victoriei și după liturghie, ieșind în curtea bisericei toți cu făclii de ceară galbenă aprinse, le stingea într-un butoi cu smoală aprinsă, strigând: 'Afurisit să fie vornicul ... și așa să se topească casa lui!' [...] N-a trecut un an, și domnița, nevasta Băleanului, murea din facere. Vodă, tatăl ei, murea otrăvit de ai lui, și mai târziu casa boierului care a iscălit în adevăr că s-a stins. De atunci a ieșit vorba 'gură de Târgoviște'. De aceea moșie nimeni nu s-a putut apropia ("When young Manolache Băleanu was taken to the [princely] court by Kirkireu, Prince Soutzos made him grow a [boyar's] beard and gave him his daughter, Lady Catinca, in marriage, providing her with ownership of Târgoviște city. And that is when the Târgoviște folk rose up all as one, [...] went to Saint Nicholas the Poor Church on Victoriei Street and, after mass, all heading into the yard with torches of yellow wax, threw them into a tar barrel set alight, shouting: 'A jink on the Vornic... May his house melt just like this!' [...] Less than a year passed, and the Lady, that is Băleanu's wife, died in labor. The Prince, her father, died poisoned by his kin, and it also turned out that the house of the boyar who had signed off on the act was also extinguished. And this is where we got the expression 'Târgoviște jinxing'. Nobody could ever again attempt to get that land")
ALT1:... that Emanoil Băleanu(pictured), later a Regent of Wallachia, was arrested and forced to sanitize a hospital during the 1830s cholera pandemic? Lăcusteanu & Crutzescu, p. 57: generalul Kiselev, vizitând Spitalul Filantropiei care era destinat pentru bolnavii noștri de holeră și negăsindu-l în desăvârșită curățenie, trimite pe dată să aducă pe [Băleanu și Odobescu] și după o aspră dojană îi arestează acolo în spital. [...] Au șezut trei zile acolo arestați, până au adus spitalul în curățenia cerută ("General Kiselyov, on his visit to Filantropia Hospital which was set aside for our cholera patients, finding that hygiene there was imperfect, immediately fetched [Băleanu and Odobescu] and after bitter reprimand arrested them inside the hospital. [...] They spent three days there, until they got the hospital to meet required hygiene standards")
Well written, abundantly cited, and considerably over minimum length requirements. Catrìona (talk) 02:14, 9 October 2018 (UTC)