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Tag: curse

A Coptic Mother-in-Law’s Curse

Sep 8, 2020

*Guest post by Ágnes Mihálykó (read her bio here) Adam and Eve were the luckiest couple in the world: neither of them had a mother-in-law! Many of us would heartily agree with this joke – not just in our times, but also in antiquity. Yet, among the many harpies of mother-in-laws, few are as mean … More A Coptic Mother-in-Law’s Curse

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The Powers of Hell: A Deadly Curse from Medieval Egypt

Dec 27, 2019

*Guest post by Korshi Dosoo; see his bio here. Somewhere in Upper Egypt, around the tenth century CE, someone wanted to destroy a man named Haron. They took a pair of rib bones from a large animal, perhaps a cow or a camel, still wet with gristle, and they wrote a curse three times, on … More The Powers of Hell: A Deadly Curse from Medieval Egypt

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