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The victim of the curse, Caecilia Prima, is supposed to die a terrible death inflicted upon her by all invoked infernal powers according to their particular competencies. This is one of the most interesting and original extant curses; it reveals a literary education of its author, as it was written by someone with a very good knowledge of Latin ...
Celia Sánchez Natalias, Sylloge of defixiones from the Roman west: a comprehensive collection of curse tablets from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE. BAR international series, 3077.
Spell 125b of the Book of Dead is one of the most important and interesting spells that reflects the religious and ethical thoughts of ancient Egypt. The general concept of this spell is to emphasize the deceased's innocence through 42 claims to the court judges of the netherworld.
5 Faraone, p. 10, demonstrated that the purpose of curse-tablets was not to kill the victims. Instead, defixiones provided "a means of binding or restraining enemies without killing them".
Legal binding curses, i.e., magical spells that concern themselves with litigation, reached a high point of popularity in Classical and early Hellenistic Athens (in the mid-fifth to late fourth century BCE). Binding curses were the products of disputes and antagonisms.
9 sie 2023 · Curses, spells, and incantations were used by individuals in ancient Greek and Roman communities to cope with conflict, vulnerability, competition, anxiety, desire, and loss. These rites were intended to change and transform the present and future course of affairs; they were grounded in worldviews in which ritual speech and action were ...
LATIN CURSE TEXTS: MEDITERRANEAN TRADITION AND LOCAL DIVERSITY. Summary: There are altogether about six hundred Latin curse texts, most of which are inscribed on lead tablets. The extant Latin defixiones are attested from the 2nd cent. BCE to the end of the 4th and begin-ning of the 5th century.
