And when he realized that I was determined to study in privacy in some obscure place, and saw that he gained nothing by entreaty, he descended to cursing, and said that God would surely curse my peace if I held back from giving help at a time of such great need.

More than two dozen mysterious deaths took place on the lands since the purported curse was made.

Placing a particular emphasis on ( the wages of sin is death ), penal substitution sees sinful man as being subject to God ’ s wrath with the essence of Jesus ' saving work being his substitution in the sinner's place, bearing the curse in the place of man ().

The curse had been such a part of Boston culture that when a road sign on the city's busy Storrow Drive was vandalized from " Reverse Curve " to " Reverse The Curse ," officials left it in place until after the Red Sox won the 2004 Series.

A curse ( also called execration ) is any expressed wish that some form of adversity or misfortune will befall or attach to some other entity — one or more persons, a place, or an object.

There is some dispute about the dangers, that the geography of the place is naturally risky with the rocks and fast moving currents — yet an Aboriginal legend exists giving it the context of a historic curse.

While such curses are generally considered to have been popularized and sensationalized by British journalists of the 19th century, ancient Egyptians were in fact known to place curse inscriptions on markers protecting temple or tomb goods or property.

Slaine must take Arthur's place and break the curse over the Ancient Britons.

In gameplay, in place of curse driven insanity, they have a Clarity track which measures their distance from humanity.

While many Kuei-jin see their P ' o as a curse, it is important to note that without the P ' o, they would never have escaped hell in the first place.

The South Beach has an intricate system of rock pools, this is both of great interest to beachcombers, and something of a curse, as the beach is a difficult place to swim.

Raine held herself responsible, not only for losing Mijbil but for a curse she had uttered shortly beforehand, frustrated by Maxwell's homosexuality: " Let Gavin suffer in this place as I am suffering now.

This was then a spirit forest, known to the Meru as the “ place of curse removers ”, less than two miles north east of his new administrative headquarters.

His three daughters perform a black mass and place a curse on Antonio's uncle Lucas Luna.

Odin declines Thor's offer of taking his place — noting that just Thor's offer has broken Bor's curse that he would be abandoned as Bor was — and states that Thor must continue to lead the Asgardians, recognizing his son's ability to see a path beyond the path and cycle of Ragnarok that Odin lacks, while Odin continues to exist in a state he describes as approximating the Asgardian equivalent of heaven in order to prevent Surtur from reentering the world.

It is the place where Rishi Suka narrated the Bhagwat Purana to Parikshit Maharaj for 7 days before he was bitten to death by snake king takshaka as per the prophecy / curse.

Harmony of Dissonance takes place in 1748, fifty years after Simon Belmont defeated Dracula's curse.

There are some who believe that a " curse " was place on the Cardinals as a result of the debacle, and that in an era where the NFL has implemented measures to ensure competitive parity, the curse is the reason for the failure of the Cardinals to win as many championships as would be expected with a team of such longevity ( the Cardinals ' only other championship came in 1947 ).

De Ruyter read a message from the stadtholder to his captains, informing them they were not only the champions of their nation but of the whole of christendom and that for any cowards " the least safe place will be the ports of the State for there they shall escape neither the severe hand of Justice nor the curse and hatred of their compatriots ", many later being overheard repeating these words to themselves.

Witchaven II takes place after the events of the first game, when the forces of darkness were triumphed over: the witches of Char were destroyed in their lair and the evil curse was lifted.

What is certain is that by the time he assumed lordship of Darkon, his curse was firmly in place.

When the marriage had taken place as per the earlier promise, the Santror realised that all the curses incurred by them had been erased and there was no curse anymore on their race.

Women actually began to appear unaccompanied in the stands, where they still occasionally ran the risk of coming home with a tobacco-juice stain on a clean skirt or a new curse word tingling their ears.

The Cubs responded by winning a pennant in the war-shortened season of 1918, where they played a part in another team's curse.

Draugar also have the ability to curse a victim, as shown in the Grettis Saga where Grettir is cursed to be unable to become any stronger.

Nowhere has the essence of the myth been expressed more succinctly than in the Heroides attributed to Ovid, where Pasiphaë's daughter complains of the curse of her unrequited love: " the bull's form disguised the god, Pasiphaë, my mother, a victim of the deluded bull, brought forth in travail her reproach and burden.

Rashi interprets his father's statement of the naming of Noah ( in Hebrew נ ֹ ח ַ) “ This one will comfort ( in Hebrew – yeNaHamainu י ְ נ ַ ח ֲ מ ֵ נו ) from our work and our hands sore from the land that the Lord had cursed ”, by saying Noah heralded a new era of prosperity, when there was easing ( in Hebrew – nahah – נחה ) from the curse from the time of Adam when the Earth produced thorns and thistles even where men sowed wheat and that Noah then introduced the plow.

This is a general blessing and curse upon all peoples who inhabit the land where Lehi and his family lived.

On the other hand, most simple rejection sampling methods suffer from the " curse of dimensionality ", where the probability of rejection increases exponentially as a function of the number of dimensions.

Characteristically, Helen's residual knowledge of, and belief in, Roman Catholicism prevents her from taking a real plunge into Messenger's world of values, where science is the universal problem-solver and where religion and also politics are considered as a curse to humankind.

The gun has a legendary history, a curse regarding its likelihood to misfire, and its involvement in a jilted love-triangle where it was used as a suicide weapon.

In the anecdotal account, he found the instrument on the ground where it had been tossed aside with a curse by its inventor, Athena, after the other gods made sport of how her cheeks bulged when she played.

There have been many instances where people who removed such rocks attempted to mail them back to various agencies in an attempt to remove the perceived curse.

The curse fiends in the present day Xanth stay close to their own community where they put on plays.

Interpretations extend Cain's curse to his descendants, where they all died in the Great Deluge as retribution for the loss of Abel's potential offspring.

The helmet has a similar effect on those who possess it to J. R. R. Tolkien's One Ring or Der Ring des Nibelungen, where the reason also lies in one's mind rather than any magical curse.

The priests carried a portable shrine as far as the central hall of Enryaku-ji, where a curse was laid on daijō-daijin Fujiwara Moromichi.

The curse on the chocolate makes adults act as if they are teenagers, leaving many areas of the city unprotected, including the hospital where the tribute of small babies needs to be taken from.

* The dance is referenced in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, where it is the result of a magical curse.

In this movie, it was revealed that the curse has some time-traveling capabilities ( or residual haunting ) where a victim may see another victim from another time frame.

As an immortal, she has to return to the heavens, where an unfortunate accident causes her to be sent back to the earth as a mortal with the curse that she will die ( and thus return to heaven ) the moment her lover lays his eyes on the child which she will bear him.

It was the curse of heaven on the states where it prevailed.

Once he succeeds, Maleficent visits Aurora on the evening of her sixteenth birthday in a form of a will-o '- the-wisp, hypnotizing Aurora before luring her to a remote tower and transforming into a spinning wheel where she pricks her finger to fulfill the curse.

He awakes three times before being finally released from the gods ' curse in the final episode of the series: The first time in The Lost Planet, where the Odyssey comes across a white Zotrian moon.