John would curse.

Enraged, Apollo indeed gifted her with the ability to know the future, with a curse that she could only see the future tragedies and that no one would ever believe her.

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.

Ahimelech great-grandson of Eli ; slain by Doeg the Edomite-fulfilling part of the curse on the House of Eli that none of his male descendants would live to old age.

Abiathar's removal from the Priesthood fulfilled that other part of the curse on the House of Eli — that the Priesthood would pass out of the House of Eli.

Satan answers that Job is pious only because God has put a " wall around " him and " blessed " his favourite servant with prosperity, but if God were to stretch out his hand and strike everything that Job had, then he would surely curse God.

When Cassandra of Troy told him she wanted to stay a virgin, Apollo placed a curse on her so that she and all her descendants ' predictions would not be believed.

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.

He feared his father would curse him as soon as he felt him, but Rebekah offered to take the curse herself, then insisted that Jacob obey her.

Hreidmar responds that if he had known this before, he would have taken their lives, yet that he believes those are not yet born whom the curse is intended for, and that he doesn't believe him.

A fuller account would explain what exactly Ham “ had done to ” his father ; or why Noah directed a curse at Canaan for Ham ’ s misdeed ; or how Noah came to know what occurred.

Severus allowed the enforcement of policies already long-established, which meant that Roman authorities did not intentionally seek out Christians, but when people were accused of being Christians they would be forced to either curse Jesus and make an offering to Roman gods, or be executed.

They would then get a hold of another vulkodlaks skin and burn it, releasing from its curse the vulkodlak from whom the skin came.

Language posed a problem ; four-letter curse words were uncommon in the theatre at the time, and slang expressions were avoided for fear they would be dated by the time the production opened.

However, she didn't know that a single moment of perfect happiness would break the curse, and thought it was enough just to ensure that Angel still suffered.

For example, if a citizen had his clothes stolen at the baths, he would write a curse, naming the suspects, on a tablet to be read by the Goddess Sulis Minerva.

She was the one who would curse on TV.

Winston had never believed in any of the tales about the curse ; he donated the diamond with the hope that it would help the United States " establish a gem collection.

Balaam refused to speak what God didn't speak and would not curse the Israelites, even though King Balak of Moab offered him money to do so.

Part of the curse on the House of Eli – that none of Eli's male descendants would live to old age – was fulfilled with the death of Ahimelech ; the other part of the Curse on the House of Eli – that the priesthood would pass out of his descendants – was fulfilled when Abiathar was deposed from the office of High Priest.

Some years after William's death, that bishop is said to have laid a curse on the family that William's sons would have no children, and the great Marshal estates would be scattered.

On hearing this, Maha Laxmi told Maharishi, that her curse will definitely haunt Brahmins but whenever any Brahmin will worship Lord Vishnu, he will be liberated from her 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.

Elizabeth Gaskell's tales " The Doom of the Griffiths " ( 1858 ) " Lois the Witch ", and " The Grey Woman " all employ one of the most common themes of Gothic fiction, the power of ancestral sins to curse future generations, or the fear that they will.

Many of the cast members, no longer working a steady job on a television series, were wary of the so-called " Star Trek curse " preventing them from finding non-Trek roles in the future.

This was the source of the curse that haunted future generation of Hippodamia's and Pelops ' children, including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus and Orestes.

This was the source of the curse that haunted future generation of Pelops ' children, including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus and Orestes.

Though it only covers part of the manga, critics felt the ending brought the story to a good stopping point while making it clear that there was much left for the Sohma and Tohru to deal with, including the curse and Tohru's future choice between Kyo and Yuki.

This curse was passed through the generations, making every future descendant increasingly dumber than the last ( which kind of explains a few things ).

Cassandra, who has been driven partially mad due to a curse by which she can see the future but will never be believed when she warns others, is morbidly delighted by this news: she sees that when they arrive in Argos, her new master's embittered wife Clytemnestra will kill both her and her new master.

This curse was to pass to all future owners of the estate, to the effect that no male heir should ever live to inherit the estate.

She places a curse on Nakahito and travels into the future.

The crew also goes into the future to destroy the demon and remove the curse.

John Mason Brown of the Saturday Review of Literature described comics as the " marijuana of the nursery ; the bane of the bassinet ; the horror of the house ; the curse of kids, and a threat to the future.

For example, if a world is cursed due to a cursed item and most people in a particular adventure succeed in removing the object, the curse could be lifted or altered for the world in all future story modules.

This was done so that Mine-a would be the future queen of Etheria rather than being the queen of the diwatas, who would be the one to fulfill Esmeralda's curse.

In an account of the aftermath of the battle, Tecumseh's brother Tenskwatawa, known as the Prophet, supposedly set a curse against Harrison and future White House occupants who became president during years with the same end number as Harrison.

Taking the curse of infidel as his new name to symbolize his refusal to accept dogma and superstitions as law, he eventually used his access to empyrean energies to travel into the future, sometime after Samaritan ’ s era, in which the human race was now extinct.

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.

Alcmaeon had given these jewels to Phegeus, who had his sons kill Alcmaeon when he discovered Alcmaeon's plan: thus lest the curse be transmitted to a next generation it was dedicated to Aphrodite at Amathus in Cyprus.

This was one of the sources of the curse that destroyed his family: two of his sons, Atreus and Thyestes, killed a third, Chrysippus, who was his favorite son and was meant to inherit the kingdom ; Atreus and Thyestes were banished by him together with Hippodamia, their mother, who then hanged herself ; each successive generation of descendants suffered greatly by atrocious crimes and compounded the curse by committing more crimes, as the curse weighed upon Pelops ' children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, and finally Orestes, who was acquitted by a court of law convened by the gods Athena and Apollo.

1841 Parallel Time, episode 1198 to 1245: Because of a curse, the Collins family must hold a lottery once in each generation.

Because of an ancestor's curse, in every generation of the Collins family, one member is chosen by lottery to spend a night in a haunted room, resulting in death or insanity.

Strahd's curse is that although he is absolute lord and master of Barovia, to the point where he can enter private homes unbidden because he owns them, once every generation he will meet a woman whom he believes is Tatyana reincarnated.

On each successive generation these powers become more and more diluted as a result of a curse set upon the Third Generation by Caine himself.

" In the last days they will curse your ascent to the holy ( generation ).

*" This must be the tenth generation cursing me ... Those who curse me turn very quiet later ... then another generation starts again.

This became known as the curse on the Tantalids, in which descendants from Tantalus in every subsequent generation were driven by revenge and hatred to the killing of their own family members.