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Related: About this forumInnocent-Looking Jar From 2,300 Years Ago Holds 'Curse' Against 55 People in Athens
(Or what disgruntled workers did in the good old days before guns)
A 2,300-year-old ceramic jar filled with the bones of a dismembered chicken was likely part of an ancient curse to paralyze and kill 55 people in ancient Athens, archaeologists say. The finding reveals new evidence for how people tried to use "magic" in the city.
They discovered the jar, along with a coin, beneath the floor of the Agora's Classical Commercial Building, which was used by ancient craftspeople.
"The pot contained the dismembered head and lower limbs of a young chicken," Jessica Lamont, a classics professor at Yale University, wrote in an article published in the journal Hesperia.
At the time, around 300 BC, the people who made the curse also gouged a large iron nail through the vessel.
They discovered the jar, along with a coin, beneath the floor of the Agora's Classical Commercial Building, which was used by ancient craftspeople.
"The pot contained the dismembered head and lower limbs of a young chicken," Jessica Lamont, a classics professor at Yale University, wrote in an article published in the journal Hesperia.
At the time, around 300 BC, the people who made the curse also gouged a large iron nail through the vessel.
https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-find-2-300-year-old-magic-jar-holding-a-dismembered-chicken
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Innocent-Looking Jar From 2,300 Years Ago Holds 'Curse' Against 55 People in Athens (Original Post)
Warpy
May 2021
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)1. The Information Age
multigraincracker
(32,673 posts)2. I bought a box of old books a while back.
There was one in German and I had a friend from Germany look at it for me. The only thing could understand was in the front page. 1578 and Geutenburg(sp) Press.
It was by Brother Magnus and it was a medical book. One cure was for a fever. You would draw a picture of a cross. Then cut out a piece of bark on a willow tree. Then fold the paper, put it in the hole and then put the bark back in over the paper. Never tried it.
Warpy
(111,245 posts)3. Had it been red willow bark
the cure would have been to eat some of it.