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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 ...
The Pella curse tablet is a text written in a distinct Doric Greek idiom, found in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedon, in 1986. [1] Ιt contains a curse or magic spell ( Ancient Greek : κατάδεσμος , katadesmos ) inscribed on a lead scroll , dated to the first half of the 4th century BC ( c. 380–350 BC).
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 bondage rigger creating a shinju rope breast harness that can be used for breast bondage. Breast torture (also called breast play, nipple torture or tit torture) [1] is a BDSM activity [2] in which sexual stimulation is provided through the intentional application of physical pain or constriction to the breasts, areolae or nipples of a submissive.
Each of the four steps was critical for the supposed success of the curse. [17] The first step was the drawing up of the curse text. This was to check that the length of the text fitted the size of the tablet sheet. The second step was the production of the tablet using specialist equipment. The third step was the inscribing of the tablet.
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]
The blood ritual described in this passage is a key example of the use and significance of blood in biblical tradition. The ritual involves the sacrifice of animals and the division of their blood into two halves, with one half sprinkled on the altar, representing God, and the other half sprinkled on the people. [1]
' deity of binding ') – One of the Shinto kami of creation; also known as the kami of matchmaking, love, and marriages. Musuhi ( 産霊 ) – A term in Shinto for the spiritual influences that produces all the things in the universe and helps them develop and complete their cycle.