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Ancient Greeks Hid ‘Curse Tablets’ In Wells And Graves To Hex Their Enemies Even After They Died
In Ancient Greece, professional curse writers were employed to hex the living and the dead from beyond the grave.
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When They Put It in Writing, They Were Cursing, Not Cussing
Recently archaeologists turned up dozens of defixiones, or curse tablets ... Last summer a voodoo priestess was called in to put a hex on drug dealers in a high-crime neighborhood of New Orleans.