Show I STILL FAITH F IN CURSE POTENCY Modern l Man 1 Has Not Out Out- Outgrown grown grO Old Superstition Ancient Dg Egyptians are arc acquiring an undeserved reputation for efficIency In n curse curses remarks Science I IThe The curse cur e of ot a pharaohs pharaoh's tomb Is IsI today spoken of ot with a awe awo e as ns some some- something something something I thing superior an and ectra sinister In ht power But the I were ere no more gh glen given en to curses than any other people and I there Is no reason for singling them out according to Dr George S Dun Duncan Duncan can professor of oC Egyptology at nt the American university Dr Duncan Duncin has made a 11 survey of curses cures In g pt Israel and he reported the results recently before the American Oriental socIety meeting In 1 There are 1 curse verses In the Bible mostly In the lie Old Testament Doctor Duncan has counted them Again and again Bible characters went up to a mountain top to be benear bonear near the source of oC PO power er and frolD that high place called ruled down wrath of oC hem heaven en on evildoers and Ebal t two 0 peaks peas came to be asso I eluted elated with such rites was wasa wasn a mountain for tor blessing and Ebal for curses Curses were common In reported Doctor Duncan It was cus sus ternary tomary to put curses on landmarks I land and boundary lines so BO that anyone un one v who ho Interfered with Ith them would he punished There were no fences but the people believed that one who broke the property laws would be visited by sickness or other misfortune misfortune tune as a result of ot the curse The curse v was as depended on to v work ork whether hether the lie law actually caught the offender or not Origin of the dependence on cur curses es Doctor Duncan attributes to old old belief In good and evil spirits In the world Prehistoric man far back In Inthe inthe Inthe II the Stone age was as ridden by super as he begin began to put two and two together and saw more then coincIdences when c evil 11 followed some particular situation In time he began to try to control the powers himself There were vere always alays enough misfortunes misfortunes tun tunes or large happening to any man to prove that he was vas wasI vasI I cursed if cursed If It he lie was is-as gullible enough to LelIe believe e that thit Prehistoric man was gullible So I were the ancient Egyptians and Dab Babylonians So were the people otI of ot I the Middle ages In medieval nt land s lid hid Doctor Dunc Dune in the clergy Ller y went Into the fields and Invoke 1 blessings on those who ho regarded the landmarks and curses s on those who moved or otherwise transgressed tile the boundaries Centuries later Inter Shah e speare v wrote role passages dealing with Ith the 11 live e topic of cur curses es and had one put on his 0 own n tomb And Ins has modern man outgrown his faith In curses aa IlI a means to getting hat he wants Far from It In Penn shoots be- be because be because a boy a woman beI I ClUS cause for se seven seen en 3 years he says she hexed him and cast evil spells i |