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Curses & Uncrossing

Curse Tablets: How Ancient Defixiones Worked

A curse tablet, or defixio, is a thin sheet of lead from the Greek and Roman world with a binding text scratched into it. It named a target,...

Dr. Aurelian Vheis · Occultism September 15, 2026 10 min read
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How Do I Know if I've Been Cursed? An Honest Checklist

There is no test for a curse, and nobody can diagnose one remotely. A practitioner's honest checklist: rule out the medical causes, then the ordinary ones, then how...

Leif Daniel Schmidt · Shadow Work & Consciousness September 07, 2026 18 min read