Curses
Magic spells which are placed upon people with the intention of harming them. The misfortune intended by curses can range from illness, and harm, to even death.
"Curses, no! keep your possessions.-I will pleasure. Do your utmost! this poor thing my body you will again replace!" ...
Psychic phenomena: curses, blessings, special powers, astrological forces, evil eye
Physical phenomena: magical rites, charms, amulets, firewalking, embedded charms, psychic surgery
Science ...
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence
Than the strong man in his wrath!
The Cry of the Children, stanza 13
Colours seen by candle-light,
Will not look the same by day.
"At the close of the Middle Ages slavery, under the power of moral forces, had mainly disappeared from Europe; but two momentous events occurred which overbore the moral power working in European society and let loose a swarm of curses upon the ...
You do not need threats, curses, anathemas. It is said that pleasure is easy and that good is difficult. That depends in what part of yourself you are living. Where is the centre of your consciousness?
"[God] took the three of them, and decreed upon them a sentence of nine curses and death. He then cast the wicked Samael and his group from their holy place in heaven.
One of the best known of ( , 1788-1845), in which the cardinal's ring mysteriously vanishes. He solemnly curses the thief by , and the jackdaw's bedraggled appearance, caused by the , reveals him as the culprit.
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No man can receive more or less than his deserts without a corresponding injustice or partiality to others; and a law which could be averted through compassion would bring about more misery than it saved, more irritation and curses than thanks.
midwifery; healing with magic, herbs and other folk remedies; providing abortions, love potions and poisons; divination; casting curses and blessings, etc.
Witchcraft, Dianic ...
The result of my training had been to obsess me with the hideously foul idea that inflicts such misery on Western minds and curses life with civil war.
After this it was filled with great execrations and curses (with this word Maranatha, which was often repeated there) against every person that should cast his eyes upon it, if he were not Sacrificer or Scribe.
 See also: Spirit, World, Death, Magic, Evil
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