the ancient greeks and romans wrote "curse tablets" ...
... to try and give their enemies bad luck
one cursed a prominent lawyer:
“I bind the tongue and soul and speech that he is practicing, and his hands and feet and eyes and mouth. All of these I bind, I hide, I bury, I nail down.”
Item #8 in my latest Linkfest newsletter, free free to read/subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-46-curse-tablets-a-robot-cellist-and-why/
... to try and give their enemies bad luck
one cursed a prominent lawyer:
“I bind the tongue and soul and speech that he is practicing, and his hands and feet and eyes and mouth. All of these I bind, I hide, I bury, I nail down.”
Item #8 in my latest Linkfest newsletter, free free to read/subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-46-curse-tablets-a-robot-cellist-and-why/