Author: Noah Berman / Source: did you know?
Have you ever felt the need to curse someone, but weren’t sure how to go about such an antiquated ritual in your modern life? Well, if you don’t have a voodoo doll handy, I have a solution for you — ancient Roman curses.
The ancient Romans were good at many things — engineering, warfare, politics, finding new and ingenious ways to murder their friends and family.
Unfortunately, they also had an Achilles heel — they were deeply superstitious. On the plus side, that superstitiousness came the proliferation of some super fun curses.In the Republic-turned-Empire, curses were written on tablets (known as defixiones) and stored with people in their tombs to protect them in the afterlife. If the curse worked, a god or goddess would grant them the favor of enacting torture, death, or destruction on a still-living foe back in the land of the living.
And since people haven’t changed all that much in the past two or three thousand years, there’s a good chance that ancient Roman revenge is still useful today. Here are 5 handy Roman curses to use on your enemies.
They’ll never see it coming, unless they’re a Roman historian.
#5. Make them unable to chain bears.
In Latin: Inplicate lacinia Vincentzo Tzaritzoni, ut urssos ligare non possit, omni urssum perdat, non occidere possit in die Merccuri in omni ora iam iam, cito cito, facite!
Translation: “Entangle the nets of Vincenzus Zarizo, may he be unable to chain bears, may he lose with every bear, may he be unable to kill a bear on Wednesday, in any hour, now, now, quickly, quickly, make it happen!”
This curse was aimed at a gladiator who, unsurprisingly, fought bears.
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