Cursed to the High Heavens
Have the power of curses gone by the wayside? I haven’t heard anyone mention they put a curse on anyone lately.
In bygone days a curse was a common way to get revenge on someone. There were voodoo dolls to stick pins into and afflict pain on a rival. Witches had powers to defeat an enemy by mixing a magical potion or repeating certain words.
But are curses really effective? In order to make it so, the person being cursed needs to know about the curse. Mind over matter might just help work a curse.
A true story, that happened nearly 100 years ago, is part of the local folklore and happened not far from where I live on P.E.I.
John, a schoolteacher, and his bride settled into their new home at the corner of a nearby crossroads. They argued and fought constantly. After years of unhappiness, and his wife wishing him dead, John dropped dead. His wife, who sounded demented, cursed him to the high heavens for leaving her and cursed his relatives and everyone living in the same area.
Gradually something tragic happened to everyone in the houses that surrounded the late John and his evil wife. Neighbors died due to alcohol poisoning, insanity and accidents. Eventually there was no one living around the crossroad where they had lived. The houses either burned down or dilapidated due to neglect.
Unbelievable but the curse is still in effect. A woman near the area committed suicide a couple years ago.
The most recent tragedy - a revengeful gunman went into a house of one of John’s blood relatives and shot the father and his son who just happened to be visiting. That was the result of a curse upon a curse or cursed twice.
But that’s fodder for another story.
...end of five minute freewrite with Prompt A Curse.
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