Concept in Definition ABC

According to a belief very popular it is possible that someone causes evil in another through desire. In this way, cursing implies wanting something bad to happen to another person. Normally every curse is accompanied by some type of insult or disqualification and through it it is intended to inflict damage on another.

The intervention of evil forces

The action of cursing a person to harm him in some way is something as old as humanity itself. From a strictly rational there is no evidence to show the power of curses. What rule In general, the mechanism of every curse has the following aspects:

1) someone deeply wishes to harm another person,

2) some spiritual or demon power is invoked or a spell is performed to cause evil on another individual and

3) After the above process, the victim of the curse suffers a painful situation.

Those who believe in the power of curses also believe that some kind of mechanism is possible to avoid them.

Tutankhamun's curse is a paradigmatic example of the irrationality of curses

In 1922 the British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun in Luxor. After the discovery of the great treasures that were hidden in the tomb, a series of very striking misfortunes occurred: the tycoon who financed the expedition within a few weeks due to a mosquito bite and in the following years, 21 people related to the excavation of the grave.

This caused many newspapers to talk about the "Curse of Tutankhamun". In this way, it seemed that the pharaoh's spirit had rebelled against all those who had desecrated his tomb. Despite the great impact media, with the passage of time it was shown that all the deaths had a reason totally logic, since the vast majority of the "damned" died at the average age of 75.

A way of speaking

When speaking of cursing there is not always a strange spiritual ritual to harm another, but it is a way of expressing a feeling of rejection or hatred towards someone. Therefore, it is a way of speaking that should not be interpreted in a literal. In fact, when things go wrong for us we say we curse our own luck and when a team football loses several times in the penalty shootout the expression "the curse of penalties".

In the language Every day other expressions and labels are used in a figurative sense or directly as a form of insult (the cursed poets, the cursed neighbors, etc.).

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