"A curse tablet (Latin: tabella defixionis, defixio; Greek: κατάδεσμος, romanized: katadesmos) is a small tablet with a curse written on it from the Greco-Roman world. The tablets ...
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were used to ask the gods, place spirits, or the deceased to perform an action on a person or object, or otherwise compel the subject of the curse." - (en.wikipedia.org 02.07.2021)