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Curses have also been used as plot devices in literature and theater. When used as a plot device, they involve one character placing a curse or hex over another character. This is distinguished from adverse spells and premonitions and other such plot devices. Examples of the curse as a plot device:
A bookplate of Malcolm Ferguson (1920–2011), example of a modern book curse. A book curse was a widely employed method of discouraging the theft of manuscripts during the medieval period in Europe. The use of book curses dates back much further, to pre-Christian times, when the wrath of gods was invoked to protect books and scrolls.
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 triple curse, directed at the Montague and Capulet houses, almost literally comes true. Due to an unfortunate coincidence – a plague quarantine imposed by the city guards – Friar John is unable to deliver a letter informing the exiled Romeo that Juliet is not dead but asleep.
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The word albatross is sometimes used metaphorically to mean a psychological burden (most often associated with guilt or shame) that feels like a curse. It is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798). [1]
Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...
Curse (disambiguation) Dharani, common term for Mahayana Buddhist mantras; Finnic incantations; Hex (disambiguation) Incantations in the Harry Potter series; Incantation bowl, an ancient Middle Eastern protective magical tool; Jinx (disambiguation) Kotodama, the Japanese belief in the power of words and names; Lorica, Irish protective prayer