Show STILL FAITH IN TN CURSE POTENCY Modern l Man lUau Has Not Outgrown Outgrown Outgrown Out Out- grown Old Superstition Ancient Egyptians are acquiring an nn un undeserved reputation for efficiency in curses remarks remarks' Science Service The curse of a pharaohs pharaoh's tomb Is Isto to today spoken en of or with awe nwe as us somethIng something something some some- thing superior and sinister extra In malevolent lt power But nul the Egyptians were no more given gl to concocting curses than nn any other people an and 1 there is no reason for singling them out according to Dr Dl George S S. S Duncan Duncan Duncan Dun Dun- can professor of E Egyptology at nt the American merican university Dr Duncan has ma made a survey of curses In Egypt rpt Babylonia and Israel and he reported the results recently before the American Oriental society meeting in tn Philadelphia There are curse curso verses in the Bible DIble mostly in the Old Testament Doctor Duncan has counted them Again and again Bible characters went up to a mo mountain top to be benear benear benear near the source of power and nd from that high place called down wrath of heaven on evildoers and Ebal two peaks came to be associated asso asso- elated with such rites was wasa a mountain for blessing and Ebal for curses Curses were common In Babylonia reported Doctor Duncan It was customary customary cus cus- tom tomary ry to put curses on lan landmarks and boundary lines so that anyone who Interfered with them would be punished 1 There were no fences but the people believed that one who broke the property In laws ws would be visited by sickness or other misfortune misfortune tune as ns a n a. a result of the curse The curse was depended c on to work whether the v h law actually caught the offender or not Origin of the dependence epen on curses Doctor Duncan attributes to 01 old 1 01 old 1 belief in good nn and 1 e evil spirits in the world Prehistoric man far back In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Stone age was rJ ridden by superstitions superstitions superstitions super super- as he began to put two and two together nn and 1 saw more than coincidences when evil c followed 1 some particular situation In time he lie began to tr try to control the powers himself There were here alwa always s 's enough misfortunes misfortunes tunes small or large happening to any man to 10 prove t that at he was cursed cursed If curs d' d dIf If If he was gullible enough to e believe that Prehistoric man was gullible So were the ancient Egyptians and Dab Babylonians lonians So were the people of the Middle a ages es In medieval En England England Eng Eng- land said Doctor Duncan the clergy clergy- went Into the the fields fields fields' nn and and- Invoked blessin blessings s on those hoso who who reg-al' reg regarded the landmarks nn and 1 curses on tho those e who moved or otherwise transgressed resse 1 the boundaries Centuries liter later Shakespeare Shakespeare Shake Shake- speare write pass passages passages es dealing with the live topic of or curses and h had d done i one put on his own tomb And n has Ilas modern man out outgrown rown his faith In curses as a means menns to getting betting what he lIe wants Far from it it In Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- 8 sylvania a a aboy boy shoots a woman because because be be- cause caus for seven seen year ear he says she hex hexed d him nn and 1 cast evil spells l I |