The Power of Curses

Every culture on earth has a word for curse. Every civilisation that has ever existed, from the oldest known tribes to the most advanced modern nations, developed the belief that one person could destroy another without lifting a finger. Not with a weapon. Not with poison. With nothing but words, rituals, intention, or sheer will.Five thousand years. Six continents. Billions of believers. And not one of them learned it from the other.The Power of Curses is a global investigation into one of the most persistent and universal beliefs in human history. From the evil eye traditions of the Mediterranean, where a jealous glance can shatter a life, to the curse tablets of ancient Greece and Rome, where professional scribes inscribed lead with venom and buried it in graves. From the vengeful spirits of Japan, whose rage moved emperors to relocate entire capital cities, to the poets of ancient Ireland, whose words could raise blisters on a king’s face and end his reign.This book examines Voodoo as it actually exists, not as Hollywood invented it. It traces the curses of the Bible from the Garden of Eden to the Book of Revelation. It stands at the entrance of Tutankhamun’s tomb and asks what really killed the people who opened it. It walks through the villages of Europe where the Roma passed, and where the fear of their spoken curses shaped laws and lives for centuries. It asks who carries out the curse, whether curses backfire on the person who sends them, whether a curse can be removed, and whether a curse can follow a soul beyond death and into the next life.The evidence is archaeological, historical, religious, and scientific. The curse tablets are sitting in museums. The scriptures are in print. The amulets are hanging in doorways from Istanbul to Mumbai. The rituals are being performed today, right now, by educated people in modern cities who see no contradiction between science and the spiritual world.This book does not tell you what to believe. It presents the evidence from every side and trusts you to make your own decision.Fact or nonsense? You decide.