it is said that this diamond was originally from a temple of sitaji in india that stone was 1 of the eye of sitaji. one day somebody stole1of the eye and the preist consider this as a bad sign and predict that who ever try to keep that stone with him will be killed
some year later that stone was found in france somebody gifted that stone to king louis and he cut that diamond into heart but he got killed and later the bad luck go into his family and all his family member got killed
so then sent that diamond to 1 of the jeweler in england but that jeweler was killed
so that stone was sent to USA by ordinary mail post to some museum and the mail company by which hope diamond was sent to museum become bankrupt
now this HOPE DIAMOND is kept separately in 1 room in the museum
HOPE DIAMOND is among the costliest diamond in this world it is pure diamond Blue in color
it is said that the 2 piece of this hope diamond from Sita ji eyes is still in india
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The 45.52 carat steel blue Hope Diamond was found in India back in remote times as a rough crystal weighing 112 carats. It first came to light when Jean Baptiste Tavernier, the noted French traveler of the 17th century, was approached in India by a slave who had a very secretive manner about him.
It turned out that he had in his possession an intriguing steel blue stone which at first look seemed to be a large sapphire, but the well-experienced Tavernier soon realized it was a diamond – the largest deep blue diamond in the world.
Legend has it the diamond came from the eye of an idol in a temple on the coleroon River in India. If that is so, one can only conjecture that the eye must have had a mate, but the fate of "the other eye" has never come to light. It would not be the first famous diamond that started it's notoriety in a religious idol Sita . The Idol's Eye and the Orlov both came from idols, according to legend. Tavernier purchased the stone and smuggled it to Paris, where he later sold it to King Louis XIV. It was cut there into a triangular-pear-shaped stone weighing 67.50 carats, and was then known as the French Blue or the Tavernier Blue.
The legends of the ill-fortune following the possessor of the Hope Diamond are many. From the start Louis XIV, for whom Louisiana was named by La Salle, who claimed the lower Mississippi in his name, (and was killed by his own men) had ill-fortune follow him, perhaps deservedly.