the opportunity to write on a few times is the curse.
I'm sure that you've heard of the curse of King Tut and The Curse of the Pharaohs.
"They who enter this sacred tomb shall swift be visited by the wings of death."
It is not a curse that's ever been found in Ancient Egypt.
It certainly was not carved or painted on any item in the tomb.
painted on any part or the exterior or interior of the tomb.
The only item of King Tut that could conceivably relate to a curse was a magical brick.
He actually had many more than just one.
protect the deceased from the evil coming from any of the four cardinal points.
His magical brick is not really a curse.
and the west not to damage the deceased or act against them.
The bricks occur primarily in private tombs and Penn Museum has several of them.
compare to the fabricated one in Tutankhamun's tomb.
a whole genre of curses developed.
and it filtered down into the popular culture.
made that talk about this and show it as if it's real.
but not the ones that were in the movies.
Most of them were meant as protection for an individual from something or someone.
royal or private, and the target could either be living or dead.
For example, one of them takes the form of a poison pen letter.
"May you be well when you read this."
"May all evil fall on you."
such as a host of enemies.
one time by listing the individuals on a clay figure.
all the Asiatics, everyone who was with them.
There's virtually nobody who is not on this list.
Surviving execration figures, therefore, are always fragmentary.
and they were especially popular for protection and childbirth.
displayed in imagery on ivory wands or also on bricks.
"Is your mother not with you?
Is no sister there to protect you?
Do you have no nurse to offer protection?"
to fell these male and female enemies from the West.
the problem and the following prescription to make it better.
In this case, the curse is all magic.
it was within the body of the priest, or the magician.
he would have to manipulate the spell and the ritual.
He would be holding a scroll and reading.
that represents protection against the forces of evil.
represent him or her as the more powerful entity.
Tutankhamun which depicts the king as victorious over his enemies.
evidence abounds for magical practice in Ancient Egypt.
the individual involved believed in the process.
One could also say the same about the efficacy of the Egyptian religion.