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  2. Category:Curses - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Curse of the pharaohs - Wikipedia

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    Curses after the Old Kingdom era are less common though more severe, sometimes invoking the ire of Thoth or the destruction of Sekhemet. [4] Zahi Hawass quotes an example of a curse: "Cursed be those who disturb the rest of a Pharaoh. They that shall break the seal of this tomb shall meet death by a disease that no doctor can diagnose." [6]

  4. Lists of unusual deaths - Wikipedia

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    Daft Deaths and Famous Last Words. Lagoon Books. ISBN 978-1-9047-9715-9. Dreher, Dale (12 March 2012). Death by Misadventure: 210 Dumb Ways to Die. ASIN B007JYWNV4. Dunning, John (February 1997). Strange Deaths. True Crime. ISBN 978-185958498-9. Powell, Michael (2008). Curious Events in History. Sterling Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4027-6307-6.

  5. Pulsa diNura - Wikipedia

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    Pulsa deNura, Pulsa diNura or Pulsa Denoura (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: פולסי דנורא, romanized: pulsē di-nurā, lit. 'the lashes of fire') is a purportedly ancient Kabbalistic ceremony in which the destroying angels are invoked to block heavenly forgiveness of the subject's sins, allegedly causing all the curses named in the Bible to befall him resulting in his death.

  6. List of allegedly cursed objects - Wikipedia

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  7. Curse - Wikipedia

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    A number of curses are used to explain the failures or misfortunes of specific sports teams, players, or even cities. For example: No first-time winner of the World Snooker Championship has successfully defended his title since the event was first held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in 1977. This has been widely attributed to a Crucible ...

  8. Lists of deaths by year - Wikipedia

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  9. List of reportedly haunted paintings - Wikipedia

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    Munch's Death and the Child (1899) from the collection of the Kunsthalle Bremen. According to urban legend, a particular 1899 copy of Edvard Munch's painting Death and the Child (sometimes known as The Dead Mother [11]) is cursed. Viewers have described the horrified girl's eyes following them as they move, and hearing a soft rustling sound ...