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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" and "bind". The tablets were used to ask the gods, place spirits, or the deceased to perform an action on a person or object…

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Plutoinstance ofThe cursing rituals may also have incorporated physical binding gestures and spoken elements.The texts on curse tablets are typically addressed to infernal or liminal gods0.80text
Charoninstance ofThe cursing rituals may also have incorporated physical binding gestures and spoken elements.The texts on curse tablets are typically addressed to infernal or liminal gods0.80text
Hecateinstance ofThe cursing rituals may also have incorporated physical binding gestures and spoken elements.The texts on curse tablets are typically addressed to infernal or liminal gods0.80text
and Persephoneinstance ofThe cursing rituals may also have incorporated physical binding gestures and spoken elements.The texts on curse tablets are typically addressed to infernal or liminal gods0.80text
sometimes via the mediation of a dead personinstance ofThe cursing rituals may also have incorporated physical binding gestures and spoken elements.The texts on curse tablets are typically addressed to infernal or liminal gods0.80text
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seemingly in order to lend them a kind of supernatural efficacy.Many of those discovered at Athens refer to court casesinstance ofwords0.80text
curse the opposing litigantinstance ofwords0.80text
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Peter Green have also studied this aspect of ancient Greek societyinstance ofand others0.80text

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