Show STILL FAITH IN CURSE POTENCY I Modern Man Has Not Out Out- Outgrown Outgrown grown Old Superstition Ancient E Eg ns are acquiring an reputation for In leeThe curses remarks s ScIence lee The curse of a pharaohs pharaoh's tomb Is today spoken of with awe as some some- something thing superior and tra e sinister In malevolent pow Po r cr nut But the sere ere no more gas en cn to concocting curses than any other people nn and there Is no reason for singling them 1 out accordIng to Dr George Gcorge S Dun Duncan I can professor or of Fg at the 1 American I Dr Duncan has made e a 1 survey of I curses In Egypt and Israel IsraelI I anti and he reported the results recently before the tue American OrIental society I meeting In Phil idelphia I There are curse verses In the I Bible Dible mo mostly In the Ol Old Testament Doctor Duncan has counted them I and again Bible characters went up to a mountain top to be benear near the source of po poser er and from fromI I that hIgh place called down wrath I of he l en on evildoers and Ebal two peaks came to be asso elated with Ith such rites was wasa a mountain for bles blessing and Ebal for tor curses es I Curses were common In BabylonIa reported Doctor Duncan It was cus customary customary tomary to put curses on landmarks I and boundary lines so that th anyone I who vho Interfered with them would be beI I punished There were wel e no fences but the people believed that one who I brol broke e the property laws would be visited b sickness s or other misfortune I tune as a result of the curse The curse Was depended on to work v whether hether the law hw caught the offender or not Origin of the dependence on curses Doctor Duncan attributes to old old belief In good and evil spirits In the world Prehistoric man far back In Inthe inthe the Stone a age e was rIdden by super as he began beg to put two t 0 and two together and saw more than coIncIdences when e esil II followed sorn some particular In time he began to try to control the powers hImself There were ys enough misfortunes tunes small or large happening to any man to pro prose e that he was cursed cursed if If he was gullible enough to believe that Prehistoric man nas as gullible So were the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians So sere ere the people of England the Middle age In medieval Eng land said Do Doctor tor Duncan the went ent Into the and invoked blessings on those sho ho regarded the landmarks and cur curses es on those who moved or other others Ise transgressed the bound rles Centuries later Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare speare wrote passages deaUn dealing Ith the 11 lase 0 topic of crises and had one put on his own tomb I And has modern man outgrown his I faith In curse curses as a means to getting what he wants Far from It it In Penn PennsylvanIa PennSylvania sylvanIa n a boy shoots a woman he be because cause for seven se years he says she hexed him and cast evIl spells |