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Imprecation
Name(s):
Cursing
Execration
Malediction
Nature
A curse is a mere wish, wish expressed in words or actions or embodied in a material object, or an appeal to a supernatural force, that something bad or evil may befall to a certain person.
Broader
Blasphemy
Verbal abuse
Related
Profanity
Aggravated by
Magic
Witchcraft
Strategy(ies)
Cursing
Prophesying malediction
Value(s)
Curse
Execration
Malediction
Reference(s)
Aman, Reinhold: Maledicta 1980
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems