The Plainsman [Auburn University, AL]
29 May 2017
By Kressie Kornis
The urban legend of the seal in front of Langdon Hall,
placed in the 1970s, is arguably one of Auburn’s most well-known myths. Legend
has it that if any student steps on the seal, they will not graduate on time or
marry an Auburn man or woman.
Hannah Burke, junior in elementary education, learned
this the hard way.
“I heard that if you step on the seal you won’t
graduate on time, you won’t find true love at Auburn and you will have seven
generations of Bama fans,” Burke said.
There are a few different ways to reverse the curse
according to the legend, including jumping into the president’s fountain at
midnight on the leap day of leap year. The next leap year is 2020.
“In order to counteract the curse, it used to be that
you had to jump in the fountain but then they got rid of the fountain, so now
you have to eat dirt out of the president’s garden or something like that,”
Burke explained. […]