What Were Ancient Greco-Roman Curse Tablets?

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8 points | by speckx 4 days ago

4 comments

  • SockThief 1 hour ago
    That link forcefully redirects me to different site: https://historytv.pl/

    Despite me blocking scripts, mind you.

    • dvh 19 minutes ago
      It redirects me to www. hearstnetworks .com

      Probably some kind of error 451 monetization fallback

  • virgil_disgr4ce 50 minutes ago
    > Archaeologists have recovered more than 1,500 of these historic hexes that were secretly directed at rivals

    If only we had the ancient greco-roman newspapers archived so we could check and see if any of the hexes worked

    • InsideOutSanta 38 minutes ago
      Well, I haven't seen Eucherios the charioteer win any races recently, so...
  • joe_mamba 21 minutes ago
    Return the slab. Or suffer my curse.
  • yieldcrv 46 minutes ago
    > The idea behind curse tablets is that my situation will improve if I can ‘bind’ somebody, make them unattractive, ineffective in speech, make their chariot wheel fall off

    hmm, well, has anybody tried it? binding a curse on lead sheet to make a chariot wheel fall off?

    everyone that manifests, or prays, or wishes become enamored with their chosen concept when a tangentially related improbability occurs that they retroactively assign to their wish. the predictive quality is zero but the retroactive attribution feels good, and the failures are attributed to yourself for not manifesting, praying or wishing hard enough - or building a value system more congruent with the metaphysical framework.

    I’m curious why they fell out of disuse? Just the fall of the roman empire?