Famous Curses

Famous Curses
Author: Elliott O'Donnell
Publisher: David & Charles
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2012-08-31
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1446358526

A classic collection filled with tales of the paranormal past—illustrations included. Travel back into supernatural history with the early twentieth-century ghost hunter and author Elliott O’Donnell as he recounts the frightening stories of: · The Erskines of Mar · The Lambton Worm · The Peasant Boy’s Curse · The Screaming Skulls of Calgarth · Corfe Castle and the Curse of St. Dunstan · Dread Coruisk · The Curse of Rudesheim and more Famous Curses is part of The Paranormal, a series that resurrects rare titles, classic publications, and out-of-print texts, as well as publishes new supernatural and otherworldly ebooks for the digital age. The series includes a range of paranormal subjects from angels, fairies, and UFOs to near-death experiences, vampires, ghosts, and witchcraft.

Famous Curses

Famous Curses
Author: Daniel Cohen
Publisher: Dodd Mead
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1979
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780396077121

Presents the stories behind and discusses the validity of such famous curses as those associated with King Tut's tomb and the Hope diamond.

Curses

Curses
Author: Rachel Lynette
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2011-01-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0737759178

Readers will learn the history of curses and their power. Author Rachel Lynette describes well-known curses, and examines cursed places and objects.

The Little Book of Curses and Maledictions for Everyday Use

The Little Book of Curses and Maledictions for Everyday Use
Author: Dawn Rae Downton
Publisher: Skyhorse
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1628731370

Gas prices, traffic. “Fresh” produce, “wholesome” food. Your boss. Your former boss. Your coworkers. Your crush. Doctors. Customer service. Who can you call to get that monkey off your back? You can’t call anyone because they won’t return your calls. Isn’t it time to have a little ammo of your own? Here you go: fifty custom maledictions for situations you run into every day, and for people you know and wish you didn’t. In step-by-step, user-friendly detail, The Little Book of Curses puts the power back in your hands. Learn how to place spells, incantations, hexes, and more. Authentic, ancient curses from around the world are tweaked for easy, contemporary use. The book covers the four essentials to practicing any kind of magic: what to do and say, what materials to use, what frame of mind to be in, and what limits to set. In some cases it even matters where you are when you set your curse, what time of day it is, and who’s around. All that is here, too. It’s foolproof!

The Complete Book of Spells, Curses, and Magical Recipes

The Complete Book of Spells, Curses, and Magical Recipes
Author: Leonard R. N. Ashley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2011-10-10
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1628731729

Do you want to cast a spell on a suitor, banish a ghost, cure a toothache, or harvest protective herbs? If so, this is the book for you. The Complete Book of Spells, Curses, and Magical Recipes explains how men and women throughout history have invoked the supernatural for specific uses and provides information about the history of witchcraft, magical recipes, and occult practices from ancient to modern times. Here is a comprehensive and enlightening guide to the rites, rituals, and magic of cultures throughout time.

Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii

Curses and Smoke: A Novel of Pompeii
Author: Vicky Alvear Shecter
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2014-05-27
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0545509947

When your world blows apart, what will you hold onto? TAG is a medical slave, doomed to spend his life healing his master's injured gladiators. But his warrior's heart yearns to fight in the gladiator ring himself and earn enough money to win his freedom.LUCIA is the daughter of Tag's owner, doomed by her father's greed to marry a much older Roman man. But she loves studying the natural world around her home in Pompeii, and lately she's been noticing some odd occurrences in the landscape: small lakes disappearing; a sulfurous smell in the air. . . . When the two childhood friends reconnect, each with their own longings, they fall passionately in love. But as they plot their escape from the city, a patrician fighter reveals his own plans for them -- to Lucia's father, who imprisons Tag as punishment. Then an earthquake shakes Pompeii, in the first sign of the chaos to come. Will they be able to find each other again before the volcano destroys their whole world?

Da Curse of the Billy Goat

Da Curse of the Billy Goat
Author: Steve Gatto
Publisher: Protar House, LLC
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2004
Genre: World Series (Baseball)
ISBN: 9780972091046

History and discussion of the legendary Curse of the Billy Goat, the Chicago Cubs' pennant races and World Series games, and baseball's curses.

Anathema!

Anathema!
Author: Marc Drogin
Publisher: Totowa, N.J. : Allanheld, Osmun ; Montclair, N.J. : A. Schram
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1983
Genre: History
ISBN:

Chilling Ancient Curses

Chilling Ancient Curses
Author: Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher: LernerClassroom
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2018
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1512456039

Have you heard of the deadly mummy's curse that protects King Tut's tomb? How about the cursed Hope Diamond, said to bring ruin to whoever owns it? Read on to learn more about the making and breaking of spooky curses throughout history--and uncover whether there's any real-life proof that curses exist. You'll have so much fun it's scary! -- "Journal"