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Eyguieres curse tablet. A curse tablet (Latin: tabella defixionis, defixio; Greek: κατάδεσμος, romanized: katadesmos) is a small tablet with a curse written on it from the Greco-Roman world. Its name originated from the Greek and Latin words for "pierce" [1] and "bind". The tablets were used to ask the gods, place spirits, or the ...
St. Guy Heals a Possessed Man (1474). Exorcism (from Ancient Greek ἐξορκισμός (exorkismós) 'binding by oath') is the religious or spiritual practice of evicting demons, jinns, or other malevolent spiritual entities from a person, or an area, that is believed to be possessed. [1]
A curse (also called an imprecation, malediction, execration, malison, anathema, or commination) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to one or more persons, a place, or an object. [1]
Alchemy; Satanism: Alchemical symbols for sulfur, associated with the fire and brimstone of Hell. The third pictured, alchemical for black sulfur, is also known as a 'Leviathan Cross' or 'Satan's Cross'.
Wherefore in the name of God the All-powerful, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, of the Blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and of all the saints, in virtue of the power which has been given us of binding and loosing in Heaven and on earth, we deprive him and all his accomplices and all his abettors of the Communion of the Body and Blood of Our ...
A geis or geas (pl. geasa) is an idiosyncratic taboo, whether of obligation or prohibition, similar to being under a vow or curse, yet the observance of which can also bring power and blessings. It is also used to mean specifically a spell prohibiting some action.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Kenneth M. Duberstein joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -32.1-32.1
In Shinto and Buddhism in Japan, an ofuda (お札/御札, honorific form of fuda, ' slip [of paper], card, plate ') or gofu (護符) is a talisman made out of various materials such as paper, wood, cloth or metal.