The lead curse tablet was discovered in a city square in the Netherlands and recently deciphered by researchers in Germany ...

A tiny curse tablet excavated in the Dutch municipality of Heerlen allegedly invokes Egyptian deities and demons not in Latin ...

Two ancient curses dating back 1,600 years depict a deity with snakes coming out of its head. This deity may be none other than the goddess Hekate, the Queen of the Crossroads. Invocations in the ...

A lead curse tablet, dating back around 1,700 years and likely written by a magician, has been discovered in a collapsed Roman mansion in Jerusalem, archaeologists report. The mansion, which is being ...

An ancient Roman lead scroll unearthed in England three years ago has turned out to be a curse intended to cause misfortune to more than a dozen people, according to new research. Found in East ...

Witch doctor displays his paraphernalia. Among Africans, curses are believed to be dreadfully powerful and potent enough to kill, deafen, blind, jinx, mentally incapacitate, mute wombs and testicles ...

Do you want to know how to cure drunkenness? Pliny, in his Natural History "assures us that five almonds constitute a cure for drunkenness." The compiler, Leonard R N Ashley adds, "You must be sober ...