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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 -- Fiction
• Blessing and cursing -- Russia
• Blessing and cursing -- Sri Lanka
• Barakah
• Benediction

• Cursing and blessing
• Execration
• Imprecation
• Malediction

• Velikorusskīi︠a︡ zaklinanīi︠a︡ (Tip. Maĭkova, 1869), by L. Maĭkov and Yudin Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sethianische verfluchungstafeln aus Rom (B.G. Teubner, 1898), by Richard Wèunsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The signification of berākā; a semasiological study of the Semitic stem b-r-k (Imprimerie nationale, 1913), by Thomas Bernard Plassmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gaelic incantations, charms, and blessings of the Hebrides : with translations, and parallel illustrations from Irish, Manx, Norse, and other superstitions (Printed by the Northern Counties Newspaper and Printing and Pub. Co., 1895), by William Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die altdeutschen Verwünschungsformeln ([s.n., 1895), by Karl Weinhold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antike Fluchtafeln (A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1912), by Richard Wunsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Defixionum tabellae quotquot innotuerunt : tam in Graecis Orientis quam in totius Occidentis partibus praeter Atticas in Corpore inscriptionum atticarum editas (in aedibus A. Fontemoing, 1904), by Auguste Audollent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Antike fluchtafeln (A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1907), by Richard Wünsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The problem of "curse" in the Hebrew Bible (Society of Biblical literature and exegesis, 1963), by Herbert Chanan Brichto (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les douze maledictions tombees sur les juifs : pour avoir procuré la mort de nostre Seigneur Jesus-Christ, sous l'empire de Tybere Cesar ([publisher not identified], 1694), by M Calion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antike Fluchtafeln (A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1912), by Richard Wünsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A free discourse against customary swearing ; and, A dissuasive from cursing by Robert Boyle ; published by John Williams. (London : Printed by R.R. for Thomas Cockerill Senr and Junr, 1695), by Robert Boyle and John Williams (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle (Gutenberg text)
• The hound of the Baskervilles : another adventure of Sherlock Holmes (Smith, Elder, & Co., 1908), by Arthur Conan Doyle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Joss: A Reversion, by Richard Marsh (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Lost Door, by Dorothy Quick (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Secret of Kralitz, by Henry Kuttner (Gutenberg ebook)

• Velikorusskīi︠a︡ zaklinanīi︠a︡ (Tip. Maĭkova, 1869), by L. Maĭkov and Yudin Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hatadi upata. (s.n., 1898) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kaepun sirasapadaya saha ; Maenikpala santiya (Granthaprakasaka Press, 1903), by J. D. Fernando (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sattva Sāntiya = Sathva santhiya (U.L.J. Perera, 1898), by Matara Andris Prērā Idirisinha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mahāsirasapādaya saha śubhamagul śantiya (Vidyāsāgara Yantrālaya, 1894), by Albert De Silva (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sirasapāda mangalya prakaraṇaya : Jayamangalya Sirasa pāda saha, Navaguṇa jayamangalya sāntiya (Sevyaśrī Press, 1898), by K. P. Dāvit Prērā (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Moorish conception of holiness (baraka) (Akademiska Bokhandeln, 1916), by Edward Westermarck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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)
• Del modo di conoscer et sanare i maleficiati, et dell'antichissimo, & ottimo vio del benedire : trattati due ... (A. Forni, 1987), by Floriano Canali (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Benedicenda; rites and ceremonies to be observed in some of the principal functions of the Roman pontifical and the Roman ritual (Benziger brothers, 1907), by A. J. Schulte and Catholic Church (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pontificale romanum summorum pontificum. Pars secunda, De benedictione et impositione primarii lapidis pro ecclesia aedificanda. (H. Dessain, successor P.J. Hanicq, 1885), by Catholic Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benediction of a church ; Litany of the Saints ; Blessing of a bell ; Litany of the B. Virgin (s.n., 1893), by Catholic Church and J. M. R. Le Jeune (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bénédiction solennelle des quatre cloches de l'église St-Jean-Baptiste de Québec, dimanche, 23 mai 1886 (s.n.], 1886), by Eglise catholique (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bénédiction solennelle du T.R.P. Dom M. Antoine abbé de N.D. du Lac des Deux Montagnes d'Oka : à l'église de Notre-Dame de Montréal, le 29 juin 1892. (s.n.], 1892), by Dom M. Antoine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sermon prononcé par M. l'abbé L. Lindsay chapelain des Dames Ursulines dans la chapelle des Franciscaines missionaires de Marie : à l'occasion de la bénédiction d'une statue du grand thaumaturge Antoine de Padoue. (s.n., 1896), by L. Lindsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• (Lettre circulaire à Messieurs les prêtres du diocèse de Québec) par son mandement du 28 octobre 1793, 2e. part. arti. 19 feu Monseigr. Jean François Hubert .. (s.n., 1819), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Québec. Évêque (1806-1825 : Plessis) and Joseph Octave Plessis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discours prononcé par M.C. Larocque curé de Saint Jean Dorchester à l'occasion de la bénédiction de la première pierre d l'église des RR. RR. Jésuites, dédicé au Sacré-Coeur de Jésus, à Montréal le dimanche de la Sainte Trinité, 22 mai 1864. (E. Senécal, 1864), by Charles Larocque (page images at HathiTrust)
• Filial respect, or, The way to render family blessings perpetual a sermon (s.n.], 1847), by Joel Fisk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discours prononcé par M. le grand vicaire Cazeau à l'occasion de la bénédiction du mouvement de Sillery (s.n., 1870), by Charles Félix Cazeau (page images at HathiTrust)
• In memoriam bénédiction de tablettes commémoratives de Laurent Benoit, Moïse Vincent et de Maire T. Benoit, épouse de Moïse Vincent, à Saint-Hubert, le 29 octobre 1905. (s.n., 1905) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La bénédiction; sermon prononcé le dimanche 12 avril 1903, ler jour de Pâque. (Impr. Lespés Soeurs, 1903), by Emile Lévy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Benediction of church (s.n., 1893), by J. M. R. Le Jeune (page images at HathiTrust)

• A form of the indulgences, with which our Holy Father Pope Clement IX. blesseth the beads, rosaries, crosses, pictures, or medals, on the occasion of canonizing of St. Peter of Alcantura, and St. Mary Magdalen of Pazzis. ([S.l. : s.n., 1669]), by Pope Clement IX and Michelangelo Ricci (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A Form of common prayer to be used on Wednesday the 27th of March, 1672 ... being the days of the general fast appointed by His Majesties proclamation, for imploring Gods blessing on His Majesties naval forces. (In the Savoy [London] : Printed by the assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker ..., 1672) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Kad ha-ḳemaḥ. (Bi-defus Y. Goldman, 1872), by Baḥya ben Asher ben Ḥlava (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Tefilah] [ʻal derekh ha-kabalah]. (Columbia University Libraries, in the 15th century), by Yehudah ibn Tibon, Moses Maimonides, of Cologne Abraham ben Alexander, and Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)

• [Tefilah] [ʻal derekh ha-kabalah]. (Columbia University Libraries, in the 15th century), by Yehudah ibn Tibon, Moses Maimonides, of Cologne Abraham ben Alexander, and Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Or ḥadash (A. Druker, 1866), by Ḥayim Bokhner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ol'loth Efrajim. (880-04 Lemberg : Verlag von Leiser Margosches, 1884., 1884), by Ephraim Zalman ben Menaḥem Mannes Margolioth and Leiser Margosches (page images at HathiTrust)

• House blessing ceremony and guest book. (Radiant Life Press, 1917), by George Wharton James (page images at HathiTrust)

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. (New York, 1880), by Joseph Ennemoser and J. Scheible (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sethianische verfluchungstafeln aus Rom (B.G. Teubner, 1898), by Richard Wèunsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trylleord fremmede og danske (Det Schønbergske forlag, 1922), by F. Ohrt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die finnischen und nordlischen varianten des zweiten Merseburgerspruches; eine vergleichende studie (Suomalaisen tiedeakatemian kustantama, 1914), by Reidar Thoralf Christiansen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tusca. 1. Die Agramer mumienbinden. 2. Die inschrift des cippus von Perugia. 3. Die Pulena-rolle. 4. Das bleitäfelchen von Magliano. 5. Die leber von Piacenza. 6. Golini-grab I. 7. Die inschrift von Capua. Unter zuzichung anderen sachlich zugehörigen archäologischen materials, übersetzt von Albert Grünwedel; mit fünfzig abbildungen. Additum est glossarium tuscolatinum. (K. W. Hiersemann, 1922), by Albert Grünwedel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aberglaube und Zauberei in der Volksmedizin Sachsens : ein Beitrag zur Volkskunde des Königreichs Sachsen (W. Heims, 1913), by Carly Seyfarth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Oraciones, ensalmos i conjuros del pueblo chileno comparados con los que se dicen en España. (Imprenta Cervantes, 1910), by Romón Arminio Laval (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Suomen kansan muinaisia taikoja ... (Suomal. kirjall. seuran kirjapainossa, 1891), by Matti Varonen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise of magic incantations. (Priv. print., 1886), by Christianus Pazig and Edmund Goldsmid (page images at HathiTrust)
• De incantamentis et devinctionibus amatoriis apud Græcos Romanosque ... (typis academicis Dalkowskianis, 1863), by Otto Hirschfeld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gremoire du Pape Honorius, avec un recueil des plus rares secrets. (Laballery, 1962) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le livre secret des grands exorcismes et bénédictions, prières antiques, formules occultes, recettes spéciales, avec explication & application des signes et pentacles ... (The author, 1908), by Ernest Louis Houssay (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise of magic incantations (E. Goldsmid, 1886), by Christianus Pazig and Edmund Goldsmid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Zauberspruch bei den Germanen bis um die Mitte des XVI. Jahrhunderts. ([s.n.], 1910), by Arthur Friedrich Hälsig (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deutsche segen, heil- und bannsprüche, nach gedruckten, schriftlichen und mündlichen quellen zusammengestellt und hrsg. ([Stuttgart, 1890), by Friedrich Losch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antike fluchtafeln (A. Marcus und E. Weber, 1907), by Richard Wünsch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die etruskischen mumienbinden des Agramer national-museums. (F. Tempsky, 1892), by Jakob Krall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Over bezweringsformulieren. ([Leiden, 1901), by Jacob Verdam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le Livre secret des grands exorcismes et bénédictions ; prières antiques, formules occultes, recettes spéciales, avec explication & application des signes et pentacles contenus dans les Grands secrets merveilleux, les Prières liturgiques, le Livre des exorcismes et les Petits secrets merveilleux ; recueil rare et précieux ne devant être confié qu'aux personnes vertueuses, douées du Don de faire le Bien et de combattre le Mal sous toutes ses formes (The author, 1908), by abbé Julio (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Suomen kansan muinaisia loitsurunoja (in Finnish), by Elias Lönnrot (Gutenberg ebook)

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