Another pennant winner did not come until their championship season of 2005, when the White Sox won their first World Series championship in 88 years, breaking their epochal drought only a year after the Boston Red Sox had broken their slightly shorter but more celebrated " curse.

The first exports began in 1963 with the discovery of oil helping to transform the Libyan economy, although imposing a resource curse on Libya.

The possibility of a curse pertaining to ownership of the diamond dates back to a Hindu text relating to the first authenticated appearance of the diamond in 1306: " He who owns this diamond will own the world, but will also know all its misfortunes.

You are the gateway of the devil ; you are the one who unseals the curse of that tree, and you are the first one to turn your back on the divine law ; you are the one who persuaded him whom the devil was not capable of corrupting ; you easily destroyed the image of God, Adam.

When they first kiss in the episode " The Killer in Me ", Willow's realization that she let Tara go reacts with a curse put upon her by another witch named Amy Madison ( Elizabeth Anne Allen ), turning Willow into Warren, Tara's murderer.

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 ).

Afterward, Coleman, who first printed the story of the curse in 1943, admitted that he made the story up to break a writer's block he had as a column deadline approached.

Local epigraphical evidence is restricted to the decrees of the Epirote League and the Pella curse tablet ( both in early 4th century BC ), as well to the Doric eponym Machatas first attested in Macedonia ( early 5th century BC ).

The first has to do with the curse of the Four Kumaras on the gatekeepers of Vaikuntha, Jaya and Vijaya, which causes them to be born as the asuras Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakashipu.

The curse of first birth was fulfilled by Hiranyakashipu and his brother Hiranyaksha in Satya Yuga when they were both vanquished by earlier avatars ( incarnations ) of Vishnu and the curse of third birth was fulfilled by Dantavakra and Shishupala in the Dwapar Yuga when they were slain by Krishna.

This self-referential narrative ( within a single paragraph Saleem refers to himself in the first person: ' And I, wishing upon myself the curse of Nadir Khan.

The first reference in Latter Day Saint writings describing dark skin as a curse and mark from God refers to Lamanites.

Arishima first achieved fame in 1917 with, which depicts God ’ s curse on both man and nature through the eyes of a self-destructive tenant farmer.

Cain (, Qayin ; Koine:, Ka-in ; Ethiopian version: Qayen ; Arabic: قابيل, Qābīl ) is the first child of Eve, the first murderer, and the first human being to fall under a curse.

Even losses that occurred many years before the first mention of the supposed curse, in 1986, have been attributed to it.

After the loss of his first wife to Kullervo's curse, the disheartened Ilmarinen attempts to craft a new one from gold and silver, but finds the golden wife hard and cold.

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.

The first such curse originated with the Baali bloodline during the Assamite clan's attempted destruction of that family.

This curse, intended as punishment for the clan's addiction to vampire blood as a result of the first curse, caused the entire Assamite clan to have a severe allergic reaction to the vitae of other vampires.

The first two volumes dealt with the rise to power of Titania and Auberon respectively, whilst the third documents the misadventures of Molly O ' Reilly as she tried to come to terms with the curse placed upon her by Titania during the Girl in the Box storyline.

" Trice also addresses the shooting in the song " Pistol Pistol " from the album Eminem Presents: The Re-up claiming he's after revenge, " I solemnly swear on my daughters tears / The nigga that got him in the head will feel it before the year ends / Hope you inconspicuous my friend / ` Cause once the word get back ya in a world of sin / Bullets will hurtle at him for tryin to murder what been determined as the first solo african " and later " I'm so sincere you seein ' a hearse this year / it's not a verse it's curse for burstin ' what's on ya person ".

Although " resource curse " is more widely understood to mean an abundance of natural resources which fuels official corruption resulting in a violent competition for the resource by the citizens of the nation.

Williams was widely seen as being in over his head and was an easy target for his NHL colleagues, who called him " Jed Clampett " behind his back because of his thick Southern accent and fundamentalist Christian views ( unlike most of his fellow owners, Williams did not smoke, drink or curse ).

Bramah has been credited with the invention of the saying, widely quoted as an ancient Chinese curse, " May you live in interesting times ", along with " May you come to the attention of those in authority " and " May you find what you are looking for ".

Winston Churchill, who had actively pressured Michael Collins and the Free State government to make the treaty work by crushing the rebellion, expressed the widely held view of Childers at the time: " No man has done more harm or shown more genuine malice or endeavoured to bring a greater curse upon the common people of Ireland than this strange being, actuated by a deadly and malignant hatred for the land of his birth.

" Along with the health problems noted by Shore and Elliot Smith, Rivers had been left to the curse of " tiring easily ".

Although it had long been noted that the selling of Ruth had been the beginning of a down period in the Red Sox ' fortunes, the curse was publicized by Dan Shaughnessy of The Boston Globe in his 1990 book, The Curse of the Bambino, and became a key part of the Red Sox lore in the media thereafter.

In another bizarre twist, it was reported that a butchered goat was hung from the Harry Caray statue on October 3, 2007, to which The Chicago Sun-Times noted: " If the prankster intended to reverse the supposed billy goat curse with the stunt, it doesn't appear to have worked.

Robertson-Glasgow noted that while he could curse very eloquently, Jardine displayed " dislike of waste in material or words.

It is notable that the conditions of the curse, barring the exception noted above, has survived from the year 1610 until today, for almost 400 years spanning 17 Maharajas.

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

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.

T. Jensen Lacy in his book, Amazing North Carolina writes: " Whitfield finally gave up on converting Bath ... Just like the disciples of old, he drove his wagon to the outskirts of town, removed his shoes, shook the dirt from them, and put a curse on the town.

In the book, Samson is under a curse that needs to be lifted.

The degree to which ordinary Red Sox fans ever believed in the curse has been questioned, e. g., by Bill Simmons in his 2005 book, Now I Can Die in Peace.

Krenn tells Tagore that's the source of the Klingon phrase Kahlesste kaase, Kahless ' hand, a swear or curse that many of the Klingons in the book utter when impressed or awed.

As the opening sequence of the book indicates, The Seven Crystal Balls and its theme of an ancient curse, was inspired by the " curse of the pharaohs ", the speculation that members of the Howard Carter expedition, discoverers of the tomb of Tutankhamun, died in tragic and mysterious ways due to a curse.

According to the 2008 book The History of the Beano, for a while there were rumours of a " curse of Plug ", fuelled by the fact that a number of celebrities featured in Mad magazine-style caricatures on the comic's cover died soon after, most notably John Wayne.

Never Say Macbeth, a 2007 film, is based around a group of actors who battle the curse of Macbeth by using Scott's book, Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner.

In their tongue-in-cheek reference book Doctor Who: The Completely Useless Encyclopedia ( 1996 ), Chris Howarth and Steve Lyons write that " An examination of Kamelion ’ s history reveals the possible existence of a curse of Poltergeist proportions.

Due to some curse and some predictions given in the book the book couldn't be published before 30 January 1948.

( with co-author Rob Rains ), a book in the sub-genre sports fiction about the Chicago Cubs finally breaking their one hundred year curse and playing in the World Series.

Kojiki ( 711-2 ), the oldest Japanese book which narrates Japanese history beginning from its creation mythology, tells that when the goddess Izanami died she was able cast a curse from Yomi on the land of living.

* In Christopher Marlowe's play Doctor Faustus, the lead character is subjected to excommunication using this process: " Bell, book, and candle ; candle, book and bell, / Forward and backward, to curse Faustus to hell.

Muggleton was bailed to appear to answer charges arising from his book The Neck of the Quakers broken, specifically that he did curse Dr Edward Bourne of Worcester, therein.