JOHN 12:40 🧿 SEE LESS PUSSIES #YPREE
𝗕𝗔𝗗 𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗬 𝗙𝗔𝗥 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗬 #𝗡𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗧𝗢𝗦𝗘𝗘𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘𝟭𝟴𝟳🪄
Usually invoking threat of excommunication, or anathema, the more creative and dramatic detail the better. Generally located in the first or last page of a volume as part of the colophon, these curses were often considered the only defense in protection of highly coveted books and manuscripts. This was notably a time in which people believed in curses, which was critical to its effect, thus believing that, if a person stole or ripped out a page, they were destined to die an agonizing death. With the introduction of the printing press, these curses instead became “bookplates [which] enabled users to declare ownership through a combination of visual, verbal, and textual resources. For the first time, warning, threatening, and cursing had become multimodal."
A book curse might read, for example, “If anyone take away this book, let him die the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen.” 🧱
𝗖𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗢𝗛 𝟭𝟴𝟳𓂀𓁀
The curse of the Pharaohs is a myth that claims to bring bad luck, illness, or death to anyone who disturbs the tomb, mummy or memory of an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh.
Origin of the myth
- The curse is also known as The Mummy's Curse.
- It's said to apply to both thieves and archaeologists.
- Some say that an inscription carved on an Ægyptian royal tomb refers to the curse.
Examples of the curse
- Some say that Carnarvon died shortly after the discovery of King Tut's tomb.
- In 1922, when Howard Carter's team discovered Tutankhamun's tomb, one of the men died of a fever, and others later died, leading some to blame a curse.
𓀮𓀛𓀾𓁀𓁈𓋹𓆣𓅃𓆲𓆃