The New York Timess theatre critic George Jean Nathan wrote that Lerner's book was based on a much older German story by Friedrich Gerstäcker, later translated by Charles Brandon Schaeffer, about the mythical village of Germelshausen that fell under a magic curse.

Bad luck and poor reliability would curse his season, though the Shadow team fell from the pace as well.

The resultant race was known as brethren by wolves and werewolves by humanity, but the gift became a curse as man fell out of harmony with his primal self.

Shortly after, he demands to hear his curse against Jupiter, and the Earth tells Prometheus " I dare not speak like life, lest Heaven's fell King / Should hear, and link me to some wheel of pain / More torturing than the one whereon I roll " and also that he is " more than God / Being wise and kind ".

" Hell and the High Schools ," first published in 1922, attacked Evolution and the teaching of Evolution in tax-supported schools as " the greatest curse that ever fell upon this earth.

It is perhaps noteworthy, though, that both the Pirates of and the Diamondbacks of fell into serious slumps in the years following their victories, as if suffering some consequence for having defied this " curse ".

His face scarred by Kull, Thulsa fulfilled the prophecy and fell victim to the curse himself.

Being now guilty of a murder, he too fell under the family curse.

Even two decades ago in Go Down, Moses Faulkner was looking to the more urban future with a glimmer of hope that through its youth and its new way of life the South might be reborn and the curse of slavery erased from its soil.

Following the death of the generation of Moses a new generation, led by Joshua, enters Canaan and takes possession of the land in accordance with the curse placed upon Canaan by Noah.

His people asked him to curse Moses ( Musa ) and those who were with him, but he said, " How can I curse one who has angels with him?

In the letter, Joseph Smith further likens M ' Lellin to the biblical magician Balaam whose donkey (" ass ") refused to help Balaam curse the leadership of the ancient Israelite church, in the era of Moses.

The advantages and disadvantages are typically talents and traits that work for or against the character, such as ( on the positive side ) having animal friendship, artistic talent, body awareness, a code of honor, or ( from the negative spectrum ) being socially inept, suffering from a drug addiction, sex addiction, paranoia, mystic curse or similar.

Robin reveals that he is indeed Sir Ruthven, having fled his home twenty years previously to avoid inheriting the Baronetcy of Ruddigore and its attendant curse.

" ( Revelation 2: 14 ) Evidently, Balaam returned to King Balak and explained how he was unable to curse the Israelites due to God having control of his tongue, but instead explained to the king on how he could get the Israelites to curse themselves, thereby removing the protection God had on them.

Fearing a curse that targeted male children, young Ramachandra was brought up as a girl for the first few years of his life, including having his nose pierced and being made to wear a nose-ring ( nath in Marathi ).

In Chrysippus, Euripides develops backstory on the curse: Laius ' " sin " was to have kidnapped Chrysippus, Pelops ' son, in order to violate him, and this caused the gods ' revenge on all his family-boy-loving having been so far an exclusive of the gods themselves, unknown to mortals.

Merlin returns to his birthplace in the Courts of Chaos in order to solve the existential riddle in which he is involved-to find that he is suddenly a lot closer to the throne of Chaos itself than he thought, King Swayvill having finally died of a long-standing illness ( aggravated, it is said, by the death curse of Eric of Amber ), and many other candidates having either been assassinated or dropped out, which pushes his own house of Sawall unexpectedly to the forefront.

However, despite being regarded by many as highly prestigious, it has been suggested that having an album nominated for or winning the Mercury Prize could be a curse on a career in music.

Her successful avoidance of further pregnancies would have been a natural reaction to having been assigned the role of an imperial brood mare, bearing a child a year only to have it taken away from her, but the importance of preserving her youthful appearance was an important influence in her decision: " Children are the curse of a woman, for when they come, they drive away Beauty, which is the best gift of the gods ".

Playing a severely paralysed character on screen, off screen Day-Lewis had to be moved around the set in his wheelchair, and crew members would curse at having to lift him over camera and lighting wires, all so that he might gain insight into all aspects of Brown's life, including the embarrassments.

In the Book of Mormon, Lamanites are described as having a " skin of blackness " caused by God's curse on the descendants of Laman for their wickedness and corruption: " And he had caused the cursing to come upon Lamanites, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity.

The curse for not having " children " is to be imprisoned to a body, neither male ( active ) nor female ( thoughtful ), leaving that person with a type of sterility, that of being unable to accomplish anything.

Desperate and overmatched, but determined to resist, the Acarnanians sent their women, children and old men to seek refuge in Epirus, and the rest marched to the frontier, having sworn an oath to fight to the death, " invoking a terrible curse " upon any who were forsworn.

In the Pauline view, Adam is positioned as the first man and Jesus as the second: Adam, having corrupted himself by his disobedience, also infected humanity and left it with a curse as inheritance.

It may also be preferable in certain rare conditions, such as Ondine's curse, in which failure of the medullary respiratory centers at the base of the brain result in patients having no autonomic control of breathing.

The existence of these shops is explained as being a curse by a sorcerer upon the shopkeeper for not having something in stock.

Later episodes with fantasy elements included the bizarre poisoning of freemasons in Poison, the Christmas episode Fires in the Fall ( which features a Bergman-esque representation of Death which appears, to judge from the last line, to have been real in spite of a ' Scooby-Doo ' explanation having been offered a scene earlier ), A Man of Sorrows which is the only episode of the sixth series set almost entirely outside Jersey, the only episode at all to lack Charlie Hungerford and-partly because of the heroin nature of the storyline, partly because of the lack of familiar characters-a dark, humourless episode unlike any other in the series ), the densely plotted The Other Woman, The Dig involving an apparent Viking's curse ( apparently inspired by Hammer Horror movies ), and Warriors about a group who believed in the existence of Atlantis.

In the Pauline view, Adam is positioned as the first man and Jesus as the second: Adam, having corrupted himself by his disobedience, also infected humanity and left it with a curse as inheritance.

In the Anushasana Parva of the Mahabharata, the god Shiva is described as having cast a curse on Surabhi.

A reference to the river Leiptr appears in Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, where the Valkyrie Sigrún puts a curse on her brother Dagr for having murdered her husband Helgi Hundingsbane despite his having sworn a holy oath of allegiance to Helgi on the " bright water of Leiptr " ( ljósa Leiftrar vatni ):

Petagine would go on to substantial minor league success in his early to mid 20's, but even his early stats hinted at the trends that would define — and perhaps curse — his career in American baseball: always having an above-average OBP, but relatively little home run power, by the standards historically applied to first basemen.

Taransky's subsequent attempts to discredit Simone by having her drink, smoke and curse at public appearances and use politically incorrect statements similarly backfire, when the press instead begins to see her as refreshingly honest.

When Dido learned of this, Dido uttered a curse that would forever pit Carthage against Rome, an enmity that would culminate in the Punic Wars.

Nandini removed the curse of her mother and the King very soon begat a son, who came to be called as Raghu meaning one who was learned in the shastras and who vanquished the enemies in war.

After the doctor was forced to send him on his way because he was attracting demons, the young man learned from a ghostly voice of the curse that had be set upon him at birth and that by killing the demons responsible he could reclaim the stolen pieces of his body and thus regain his humanity.

It is never explicitly stated which war he fought in, but it is likely that he served during Operation Torch during World War II, since several times throughout the series he uses a curse he learned while in North Africa.

Bootstrap was tied to a cannon and thrown overboard after it was learned he sent a gold medallion to Will so the crew would remain under an ancient Aztec curse as punishment for betraying Sparrow.

Near the end of the game, Nathan finds himself in an abandoned German U-Boat base built into the island in which he finds that the Germans had sought for the power of the statue of El Dorado but too late learned that it carries a curse that had mutated them into monsters.

She would fall to Junpei but was relieved of her curse because she learned the true way of the fist that her late sensei taught her but refused to listen.

The fighting went on until the Power Rangers learned the truth and helped free him from the curse, with help from the Rhino and Armadillo Wild Zords.

He was very strongly opposed to the professionalization of the club, and when he learned of this process being carried out by Humberto Salcedo Fernández, he placed a curse on the institution.

Approximately fifteen years later, the criminal Committee learned of Gregor's curse and blackmailed Philip, threatening to reveal his secrets.

In the return of Kull the Destroyer, Thulsa Doom / Ardyon learned of the curse of Torranna ( essentially, if a scarred man wore the crown and sat the throne, he'd be unable to ever leave the throne ), which he determined to bestow upon Kull.