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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.
The Kirk Cousins curse refers to a curse in which an NFL team who has lost to quarterback Kirk Cousins has failed to win a Super Bowl since he entered the league in 2012. The curse first started to take effect in 2016 when Cousins, as a member of the Washington Redskins (now the Washington Commanders) defeated the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants.
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 ...
Between their 1908 triumph, which was the Cubs' second world championship (they'd also won the Series in 1907 to become baseball's first back-to-back winners as well as the first franchise to appear in three consecutive World Series), and 1945, the first year of the alleged Billy Goat Curse, the Cubs won the National League pennant six times ...
This is a list of objects that are allegedly cursed.. The Anguished Man [1]; Annabelle (doll) [1] [2] Busby's stoop chair [3]; Black Prince's Ruby [citation needed]; The Crying Boy [4] ...
The Mummy's Curse: Mummymania in the English-speaking World. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415340229. Hamilton-Paterson, James (1978). Mummies: Death and Life in Ancient Egypt, Carol Andrews, p. 197, Collins for British Museum Publications, ISBN 0001955322; Winstone, H.V.F. (2006). Howard Carter and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Barzan ...
The curse is sometimes presented as the first in a trilogy. Comedic author Terry Pratchett stated: The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for."
The curse had been such a part of Boston culture that when a "reverse curve" road sign on Longfellow Bridge over the city's Storrow Drive was graffitied to read "Reverse The Curse," [4] officials left it in place until the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series. After the World Series that year, the road sign was edited to read "Reversed Curse" in ...