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Blessing and cursing.

Here are entered general works on blessing and cursing. Works on the blessing of objects and persons and the act of blessing as a liturgical function are entered under Benediction.

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• Incantations

• Blessing and cursing -- Early works to 1800
• Blessing and cursing -- Fiction
• Benediction

• Cursing and blessing
• Execration
• Imprecation
• Malediction

• The Fasti, Tristia, Pontic Epistles, Ibis, and Halieuticon of Ovid: Literally Translated Into English Prose, With Copious Notes (London: H. G. Bohn, 1851), by Ovid, trans. by Henry T. Riley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Fasti, Tristia, Pontic Epistles, Ibis, and Halieuticon of Ovid: Literally Translated Into English Prose, With Copious Notes (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1885), by Ovid, trans. by Henry T. Riley (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)

• Die Kirchlichen Benediktionen im Mittelalter (2 volumes in German; Freiburg im Breisgau et al.: Herder, 1909), by Adolph Franz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Danmarks Trylleformler (2 volumes in Danish; Copenhagen and Oslo: Gyldendal, Nordisk Forlag, 1917-1921), by F. Ohrt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses: or, Moses' Magical Spirit Art, Known as the Wonderful Arts of the Old Wise Hebrews, Taken From the Mosaic Books of the Cabala and the Talmud, for the Good of Mankind (English translation of a German book edited by Scheible; one section attributed to Ennemoser; New York, 1880), ed. by J. Scheible, contrib. by Joseph Ennemoser (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Comparative Study of The Mayas and the Lacandones (New York and London: Macmillan and Co., for Archaeological Institute of America, 1907), by Alfred M. Tozzer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Bible in the Bowls: A Catalogue of Biblical Quotations in Published Jewish Babylonian Aramaic Magic Bowls (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Daniel James Waller, contrib. by Dorota Molin (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• The Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) (based on the 1913 Medici Society text), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (HTML at Lysator)
• The Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani (based on the 1895 text and commentary), trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Carmina Gadelica (2 volumes published in the editor's lifetime (later posthumous volumes not included)), ed. by Alexander Carmichael
  • Volume I: HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Volume II: HTML at sacred-texts.com

• Om: One God Universal, A Garland of Offerings (1999), by Murari Lal Nagar and Sarla Devi Nagar (PDF at Missouri)

• Om at Home in America: Svami Rama Tirtha Enlightens (2000), ed. by Murari Lal Nagar and Sarla Devi Nagar (PDF at Missouri)
• Om: One God Universal, A Garland of Offerings (1999), by Murari Lal Nagar and Sarla Devi Nagar (PDF at Missouri)

• Om: One God Universal, Read and Realize (A Select Bibliography) (2001), by Murari Lal Nagar and Patricia Yocum (PDF at Missouti)