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Thread #68875   Message #1165767
Posted By: GUEST,Clint Keller
20-Apr-04 - 02:00 AM
Thread Name: Folklore: Cursing Thread
Subject: RE: BS: Cursing Thread
I curse ye;
I curse ye by a right line, by a crooked line, a simple and a broken.
By flame, by wind, by water, by a mass, by rain and by clay.
By a flying thing, by a creeping thing, by a sarpint.
By an eye, by a hand, by a foot, by a crown, by a cross, by a sword and by a scourge I curse ye.
Haade, Mikaded,Rakeben, Rika, Ritalica, Tasareth, Modeca, Rabert, Tuth, Tumch.

[Missus Munsey
in The Gyrth Chalice Mystery by Margery Allingham]

This somehow doesn't sound like Margery Allingham's invention; does anyone know where it comes from?

clint

tumch