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I wonder how likely it is that these individuals wrote the curse themselves or if someone provided that as a service.
by duxup 2y ago
I wonder how likely it is that these individuals wrote the curse themselves or if someone provided that as a service.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoAnd if they did, I wonder if it was a one time license or curse as a service with regular updates
- Mistletoe 2y agoCurse as a service is just what we call modern subscription-based computing.
- duxup 2y agoSocial media…. with curses directed right at you ;)
- aomurphy 2y agoPretty likely! You can often see ones that follow the same format in the same hand, but with different names subbed in. Presumably some people went to a specialist who then followed mostly the same format varying for your own needs (a bit like a lawyer today?). It's unclear what the proportion was, maybe there were lots of people who figured DIY was good enough. I learned this in a college course, Wiki seems to cite a few sources for this as well, but they're all a bit old. Not sure what the latest research is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_tablet#CITEREFGager1992 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_tablet#CITEREFGager1992