Medieval scribes spent years upon years painstakin...  ...scripts still exist, with warnings in the form of curses written into them, sometimes in poetic form.2. "A...  ...poetic form.2. "A WORSE END"A 15th-century French curse featured by Marc Drogin in his book Anathema! Med...  ...nathema! Medieval Scribes an...

The curse of the Hope Diamond supposedly affects anyone in...  ...f a Hindu statue, and Hindu priests conferred the curse . The 115-carat diamond called the Tavernier Blue...  ...his house burned down.Is the Hope Diamond really cursed ? It's possible that there were people who c...

Every plantation in Louisiana has a ghost story. A...  ...Lavon (usually spelled Marie Laveau). Lavon put a curse on De Coucy, swearing his bloodline would die out...  ...igh society of St. Landry Parish. Madame Lavon's curse was nearly forgotten by the time the oldest daugh...

Journalist and sailor Olivier Le Carrer released a...  ...Olivier Le Carrer released a book called Atlas of Cursed Places: A Travel Guide to Dangerous and Frightful...  ...ur-Emir: The Malevolent MausoleumThe site of this cursed edifice lies in modern-day Uzbekistan in a region...  ..., Germany launched an attac...

(Gemma Correll)People living today will not be imp...  ...)People living today will not be impressed if you curse them with withering flesh, perpetually bleeding e...

When reading the latest from Doghouse Diaries, I couldn’t help but think of the Little Jimmy Dickens song… May the bird of paradise fly up your nose May an elephant caress you with its toesMay your wife be p...

Atlas Obscura is presenting its annual 31 Days of...  ...le, places, and things. Today, we learn about the Cursed Amethyst.The Delhi Purple Sapphire (which is not...  ...o gave it to him! Another owner, convinced of the curse , threw it in a canal, but it was salvaged and ret...

Photo: Museo Archeologico Civico...  ...heologico Civico di Bologna There ain't no curse like black magic curse ! Newly deciphered tablets revealed the...  ...ed the use of black magic in 1,600-year-old Roman curses : One of the *strong clas...

Say your prayers! An ancient &qu...  ...one" used by Christian pilgrims to curse their enemies has just been found in the island o...  ...either while praying or when laying a curse , and were often to be found on sacred pilgrim rou...

The following is an article from Bathroom Re...  ...Flickr] In every film about Dracula, there's a curse . But did the curse extend beyond the screen ... and actually affect...