A good look at it reveals a primal person haunted with the maledictions of being something of an animal.
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Before Tuesday's game, reporters put the question of maledictions to Jon Lester, the veteran ace of the Cubs' staff.
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Even in the Trump years, there will be ways — time-tested and effective — to get around the White House maledictions.
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Pedigo and McMurray's collaborations aren't as dark as those maledictions, but their work is suggestive of a similar sort of mystery.
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Trump, too, sees powerful forces arrayed against him: leakers whispering maledictions into the listening ears of journalists, protesters funded by his enemies and a federal intelligence apparatus bent on using his campaign's supposed Russian connections to undermine his presidency.
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After putting him in the coffin his > [squaws] who witnessed the scene, uttered the most piteous cries, cutting > their ankles until the blood ran in streams. An old Indian woman...standing > between the house and the grave, lifted her arms to heaven and shrieked her > maledictions upon the heads of the murderers. Col. Sarpy, Stephen Decatur, > Mrs. Sloan, and an Otoe half-breed, and others stood over the grave when his > body was lowered.
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In some cultures over- complimenting is said to cast a curse. So does envy. Since ancient times such maledictions have been collectively called the evil eye. According to the book The Evil Eye by folklorist Alan Dundes,Dundes, Alan (ed.) (1992) The Evil Eye: A Casebook University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, ; originally published in 1981 by Garland Publishing, New York the belief's premise is that an individual can cause harm simply by looking at another's person or property.
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Chiesa della Pietà in Venice, the church of the orphanage. This is where the foundling wheel once stood. The inscription declares, citing a 12 November 1548 papal bull of Pope Paul III, that God inflicts "maledictions and excommunications" on all who abandon a child of theirs whom they have the means to rear, and that they cannot be absolved unless they first refund all expenses incurred. Within the Catholic Church, there are differences between the discipline of the majority Latin Church regarding excommunication and that of the Eastern Catholic Churches.
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When > they discovered that we would not fire on them, there was a rush of > contrabands out on her deck, some dancing, some singing, whistling, jumping; > and others stood looking towards Fort Sumter, and muttering all sorts of > maledictions against it, and "de heart of de Souf," generally. As the > steamer came near, and under the stern of the Onward, one of the Colored men > stepped forward, and taking off his hat, shouted, "Good morning, sir! I've > brought you some of the old United States guns, sir!" That man was Robert > Smalls.
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Today's King Of Israel?, Israel National News, February 27, 2012. Avigdor Eskin, a member of the Gush Emunim ("Bloc of the Faithful"), claimed to have recited the following maledictions of the Pulsa diNura on the night of October 2, 1995:מחקר: עסקנים חרדים המציאו את הפולסא דנורא; see variant version reported at אין חרטה בימין הקיצוני: "הפולסא דנורא עבדה" This was preceded by a similar ceremony in Safed.15 שנה אחרי שערך טקס פולסא דנורא ליצחק רבין, אביגדור אסקין מאחד את הימין הקיצוני בעולם Rabin was assassinated within the month.
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Chiesa della Pietà, the church of an orphanage in Venice. The plaque cites on a Papal bull by Paul III dated November 12, 1548, threatens "excommunication and maledictions" for all those who – having the means to rear a child – choose to abandon him/her instead. Such ex-communication may not be canceled until the culprit refunds all freights incurred to raise the baby. Former Jewish orphanage in Berlin-Pankow St. Nicholas Orphanage in Novosibirsk, Russia Historically, an orphanage is a residential institution, or group home, devoted to the care of orphans and other children who were separated from their biological families.
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Curative powers were also ascribed to earth coming from the saint's grave. The prerogative of administering it to visitors belonged to the Machan (Maughan) or Loughney family, presumably because the family was known to descend from the erenachs (wardens) of the church. A flagstone at the saint's grave known as Leac Cuimín (The stone of Cuimín) is thought to have been used as a 'cursing stone' under similar guidance: members of the Machan (Maughan) or Loughney Lavin, History and legends of the Civil Parish of Kilcummin, p. 20 family could be asked to perform a ceremony to call down maledictions on people who had caused harm to others.
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