The Power of Curses
Fact or Nonsense? You Decide.
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The Power of Curses
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Narrated by:
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Jennifer Harty
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By:
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Heinrich Wilson
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.
©2026 Heinrich Wilson (P)2026 Heinrich Wilson