Curse

Curse

A curse (also called a jinx, or execration) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to some other entity—one or more persons, a place, or an object. In particular, "curse" may refer to a wish that harm or hurt will be inflicted by any supernatural powers, such as a spell, a prayer, an imprecation, an execration, magic, witchcraft, God, a natural force, or a spirit. In many belief systems, the curse itself (or accompanying ritual) is considered to have some causative force in the result.

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Famous quotes containing the word curse:

    Do you still persist in your integrity? Curse God, and die.
    Bible: Hebrew, Job 2:9.

    Job’s wife to Job.

    That’s why I’ve come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I’m powerless to fight alone.
    —Edward T. Lowe. Erle C. Kenton. Count Dracula (John Carradine)

    The line it is drawn
    The curse it is cast
    The slow one now
    Will later be fast
    As the present now
    Will later be past
    The order is
    Rapidly fadin’.
    And the first one now
    Will later be last
    For the times they are a-changin’.
    Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)