Magic
Where victims of curse tablets are dedicated.
What is the underworld?
The name of a curse tablet.
What is dēfīxiōnēs?
An omen or warning given by the gods.
What is ōmina?
A person who divined the future from the entrails of animals.
What was a hāruspex?
A method used to heighten the mystery.
What is writing backwards?
The number of tablets found at Aquae Sulis.
A reason a Roman might stay home
What is a bad dream/hooting owl/threshold stumble?
The Roman goddess of magic.
Who is Hecate?
Nonsense words used to heighten dramatic/magical effect.
What are bescu, berebescu, bazagra?
The material of curse tablets.
What is lead or pewter?
The correct way to cross a threshold.
What is "with the right foot"?
The tool used to inscribe curse tablets.
What is a nail?
A figure often depicted on a curse tablet.
What is a bearded demon? (+100 for w/ urn and torch)
The most famous Aquae Sulis curse tablet.
What is the Vilbia Curse?
Something an amulet might provide protection from.
What is an evil eye?
Divining the future from the patterns or flight of birds.
What is "augery?"
Objects often accompanying defixiones.
What are small figurines or effigies, sometimes called kolossoi (Ancient Greek name)?
Where curse tablets were deposited.
What are graves, sacred springs, or temple walls?
Ritual execution, often being buried alive, poena cullei (sewn in a sack w/ animals and drowned), damnatio ad bestias (torn apart by animals in the arena).
What was the punishment for impiety?
The oldest defixiones ever found.
What is the Mt. Ebal lead object?