How to Make an Ancient Curse Tablet

Ever wanted to curse your neighbor as the ancient Romans did? Watch to find out how!

Twitter: @andrewmarkhenry

Attributions:
Jerusalem curse tablet: Robert Walter Daniel

[KungKras]

Instructions unclear. My enemy now won the lottery, found the love of his life, and started a successful company.

[lordpawn]

The old drop a chunk of lead in my neighbors well trick, works great as a "Curse".

[EdwardianNerdfighter]

"You don't want to be fooling around with Underworld deities" he said and then did exactly that.

[nomadicmonkey]

Youtube needs more useful lifehack videos like this.

[brentcrane]

Great video. lead corresponds with Saturn in magical tradition. Saturn is associated with death and decay so it makes sense. Also that unknown script looks a lot like the Enochian language of John Dee.

[b.a.davis-howe]

"And you don't really want to be fooling around with underworld deities anyway, right?"
Um, of course I do. I have shrine space for Hekate and Hermes in my ritual room, across from the shrine for my ancestors.

[EricJacobusOfficial]

The "bitter waters" curse (the Sotah) in Numbers 5 is a good example of how the Bible treats magical curses. Basically it says, "If you suspect your wife of jealousy, have her ingest some dirt from the temple floor in a drink and we'll dissolve a curse in it for good measure, and if her belly swells up or her thigh decays then your suspicions are correct." The odds of these side symptoms occurring is basically zero so this is the Torah's way of saying, "Yeah those magical curses are nonsense but here's a placebo for those of you who still believe in them." Balaam's curse against Israel in Numbers 22-24 is another one.

[tlgk]

The monad: How much water do you want?
The Demiurge: Yes

[jesuschristsupermart]

wow this channel is super interesting and well put together! super happy to have randomly run into it. cant wait to see more from you!

[brunogiambroni]

Wrote a paper on these in an undergrad classics course. Fascinating stuff. Really interesting video, as usual!

[moulanasama]

In Pakistan and in Urdu language these are called as "taweez" and charakterse is called "qalam e ideeers" or the pen of the Enoch or writing of Enoch.

[totalnosranje]

Lovely video. I would love to see more spells from different cultures.

[ezrahurvitz]

Love this channel, just finished a major academic paper on the subject of Roman curse Plotius Curse tablets attributed from Johns Hopkins and wouldn't have been inspired to research the topic if not for ReligionForBreakfast's introductory. Is there any way you could make any of your sources more available, perhaps in the descriptions of the videos? I'm always excited to see your new content in my feed, and would love to keep the learning going!

[Guruc]

Really cool! It seems not too dissimilar from people who perform good-luck rituals before sports games, or middle-schoolers who try spells on the internet meant to transform them into animals. People like magic stuff

[satansjihad]

Actualy, most curses used lead because of its association to Saturn.

[micahadams]

The Charakteres remind me of spiritual sigils and the alphabets created by Heinrich Agrippa.
I wonder if there is a correlation, or if they were merely inspired by the charakteres or some sort.

[SerpentLight]

Lead was also associated with the planet Saturn which had the association of Death attached to it. So, other than your relatively excellent explanation, lead or the metal of death would be a good choice when performing magick that conjures dark or chthonic forces or otherwise maleficia.

In another video, I believe it was either the one on the three wise men, frankincence, or demons in the toilet, a picture of a metalic charm invoking the Lord for protection was shown. It appeared to be gold though I would imagine it was a lesser valued metal that may have been common for use. Gold was the metal of Sol or the Sun which depending on what you read or take it as, implies health, strength, good luck/fortune, and protection.

[stepsistertrap]

Finally!, a tutorial that is actually usefull

[typograf]

This is so simple. We used to (1000 years ago) to cut the head of a horse, put it on a stake and point it in the direction of our enemy. It is called "en nidstang" (spite or malice pole?). The idea was that it would cause unrest between the members of the enemys household and someone would be hurt or killed. But if the enemy took great care to behave well then the pole might litterally fall back and hurt me.

[crunch]

The 1 dislike was from the person you cursed