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A curse is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to some person, place, or object. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
Throughout the medieval era, mainstream Christian doctrine had denied the belief in the existence of witches and witchcraft, condemning it as a pagan superstition. [14] Some have argued that the work of the Dominican Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century helped lay the groundwork for a shift in Christian doctrine, by which certain Christian theologians eventually began to accept the possibility ...
Reviews for A Plague of Giants include Publisher's Weekly [6], Elitist Book Reviews, [7] and The Tattooed Book Geek [8] Reviews for A Blight of Blackwings include Kirkus Reviews, [9] Reading Reality, [10] and Waiting For Fairies [11] Reviews for A Curse of Krakens include USA Today, [12] The Storygraph, [13] and Los Angeles Book Reviews [14]
The word anathema has two main meanings. One is to describe that something or someone is being hated or avoided. The other refers to a formal excommunication by a church. [1] [2] [3] These meanings come from the New Testament, [4] where an anathema was a person or thing cursed or condemned by God. [5]
"Klytaimestra: 'O Ara (Curse—i.e. the Erinys) [Erinys] that haunts this house (of the Atreides), so hard to wrestle down: how far forward you look! Even what was laid well out of harm's way you bring down with your well-aimed shafts from far off, and you strip me of those I love (i.e. her lover and cohort in murder, Aigisthos ), utterly ...
Margaret Lang admitted to consorting with the Devil, but said that she had renounced sin and was reconciled with God. Agnes Naismith laid a "dying woman's curse" [8] on everyone present and their descendants; for many years afterwards every tragedy in the town was blamed on "the witches' curse". [8]
The bull recognized the existence of witches: Many persons of both sexes, unmindful of their own salvation and straying from the Catholic Faith, have abandoned themselves to devils, incubi and succubi, and by their incantations, spells, conjurations, and other accursed charms and crafts, enormities and horrid offences, have slain infants yet in the mother's womb, as also the offspring of ...
Curses, Hexes and Spells is a 1974 book by Daniel Cohen.Marketed as children's book, it explains what "curses" are, and describes supposed curses on families (such as the House of Atreus in Greek mythology, the House of Habsburg or the Kennedy family), creatures, places (the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea), wanderers (like the Flying Dutchman) and ghosts.