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The History of Curse in the Middle Ages
In the earliest examples, a curse was a punishment handed out by a deity for misbehaving or devious human actions. The story of adam and eve in the christian bible is full of curses doled out after their disobedience to god's instructions. A person might utter a curse at an enemy, but it could also be turned back or returned to the speaker where it would deal the effects on the speaker. According to another legend, the celtic people of europe use curses in a powerful way. If a tenant farmer was fired and evicted from the land he had been hired to work, he would put these stones in a lit fireplace,. Then he would fall on his knees