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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 significant subset of the book curse is the document curse. These curses were employed in much the same way as the book curse, but with one significant difference; while book curses almost always protected a physical book (or tablet), document curses were generally worded to protect the text of the document that contained them.
A curse is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to some person, place, or object. Subcategories.
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Curse of the warmbloods The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins: A disease created by Doctor Neveeve in the city of Regalia. She gave the disease to fleas, which instead of getting infected, spread the disease around warm-blooded creatures, including people. Symptoms include purple blemishes, coughing, choking, and a swollen tongue.
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.
Boris Karloff in James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein, based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel.The monster is created by an unorthodox biology experiment.. Biology appears in fiction, especially but not only in science fiction, both in the shape of real aspects of the science, used as themes or plot devices, and in the form of fictional elements, whether fictional extensions or applications of ...
Curse – Supernatural hindrance, or incantation intended to bestow such a hindrance; Elite religion – Form of a religion the leaders deem official; Exorcism – Evicting spiritual entities from a person or area; Faith – Confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept; Fatalism – Philosophical doctrine on the subjugation of all events ...