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unusual facts about The Curse



Andy Van Slyke

In July 2010, he published The Curse: Cubs Win! Cubs Win! Or Do They? (with co-author Rob Rains), a book in the sub-genre sports fiction about the Chicago Cubs finally breaking their one hundred year curse and playing in the World Series.

Lucio Fulci

The Curse (1987) (aka The Farm) – Fulci was credited as co-producer on this H. P. Lovecraft adaptation, based on The Colour Out of Space, which was directed by David Keith.


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Andrew Lynford

More recently, Lynford directed The Cheeky Chappie, a play about the comedian Max Miller, Side By Side By Sondheim and Ken Hill's The Curse of the Werewolf at the Union Theatre in London.

Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of the City of Gold

Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of the City of Gold is an adventure game designed for PlayStation.

Brigham's Ice Cream

Dice-Kream (originally called Reverse the Curse, prior to the 2004 Red Sox World Champions title, then renamed Curse Reversed!, until 2007)—Vanilla with chocolate-coated peanuts and chocolate-coated caramel pieces, loosely mixed with fudge sauce.

Capillaria philippinensis

Witch doctors were hired by the locals to exorcise the curse placed on them by the river god, which they believed was responsible for this sudden disaster.

Castle Waiting

The story begins with a stand-alone, prologue tale, Castle Waiting: The Curse of Brambly Hedge, which retells the story of Sleeping Beauty mostly from the perspective of those at the periphery of the action.

Child of the Moon

In between these events, Henry and Regina (Lana Parrilla) show Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle) a burn that Henry received during the dream, which could be a "side effect" of the curse.

Compass Point Festival

Recently, there has been talk of the Compass Point curse - e.g., a lot of bands that have played main stage at Compass Point have split up shortly afterwards (the "curse" has notably hit McLusky, Jarcrew and Million Dead - all main stage performers - in the past years, alongside several lesser-known local acts).

Dan Shaughnessy

He subsequently wrote Reversing the Curse after the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series.

Dilīpa

To negate the ill-effects of the curse, the king was advised to worship the divine cow Nandini who was the daughter of Kamadhenu, and thereby to earn her goodwill.

Nandini removed the curse of her mother and the King very soon begat a son, who came to be called as Raghu meaning one who was learned in the shastras and who vanquished the enemies in war.

Eriphyle

Alcmaeon had given these jewels to Phegeus, who had his sons kill Alcmaeon when he discovered Alcmaeon's plan: thus lest the curse be transmitted to a next generation it was dedicated to Aphrodite at Amathus in Cyprus.

Even Steven Levee

In addition Even Steven Levee produced, engineered, played bass and co wrote the music with Don Puglisi on "The Curse", a poem by Florence Kaye.

Georges Aaron Bénédite

Bénédite died in Luxor, Egypt, shortly after visiting the tomb of Tutankhamun, further adding to the legend of the curse of the pharaoh.

Graham Dow

The curse was pronounced on the Border Reivers by the Archbishop of Glasgow and was inscribed on a stone as part of the city's millennium celebrations.

Herb Score

Score would tell Cleveland sportswriter Terry Pluto (for The Curse of Rocky Colavito) that, in 1958, after pitching and winning a few games and feeling better than he'd felt in a long time, he tore a tendon in his arm while pitching on a damp night against the Washington Senators and sat out the rest of the season.

Jerry Sherlock

Sherlock left textiles to establish his own film production company, within six-months of establishing his company he had produced his first film, Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen in 1981, starring Michelle Pfeiffer (in one of her first major roles), Peter Ustinov and Angie Dickinson.

Leo Geter

Howard Stern was going to get the part of the radio talk show host Barry Simms in Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers in 1995, but he was filming Private Parts at the time, so the role went to Geter.

Noel Knockwood

He also ceremonially lifted the curse from the A. Murray MacKay Bridge at its opening.

Old Man Willow

A song called "Old Man Willow" by the band Elephant's Memory describes the anger, frustration, and resentment resulting from the curse of being rooted in one spot while the world goes on all around.

Priyanath Bose

Very few written records remain of Dr. Bose, but he was mentioned in Satyajit Ray's novel Chhinnamastar Abhishap (Trans: The Curse of the Goddess), featuring the famous fictional detective, Feluda.

Ptahhotep

Also, in an episode of Quantum Leap called "The Curse of Ptah-Hotep", Sam Beckett leaps into an archeologist named Dale Conway as he and a colleague uncover the tomb of Ptah-Hotep.

Raven Mocker

Raven mockers are a central theme in the book The Curse of the Raven Mocker, by Marly Youmans, where the main character, Adanta, chases a man who appears to be a raven mocker in order to rescue her enspelled mother.

Rick Manning

In the book The Curse of Rocky Colavito, author Terry Pluto noted that the trade was necessitated by an awkward situation, namely that Eckersley's wife Denise had left him for Manning after Rick had stayed with the Eckersleys while recovering from his back surgery, and in that time became romantically involved with her.

Ring of Silvianus

In 1929, during excavations of the site of the Roman temple of Nodens at Lydney Park, the archaeologist Sir Mortimer Wheeler discovered details of the curse.

Selfless, Brave and True

Months later in New York City, and after learning that Emma (Jennifer Morrison) has just arrived in Storybrooke to break the curse, August meets up with Neal/Baelfire (Michael Raymond-James) to confirm what will happen next, then tells Neal that he will follow Emma to Storybrooke and when she breaks the curse he will send Neal a postcard.

Simon Sues

When he fails to recover the keys he tries to activate the curse that was placed on them by their original owner, a Gregorian Monk named Francisco.

The Centipede's Dilemma

In 1903, Simplicissimus magazine printed an adaptation of the story by the Austrian author Gustav Meyrink, "The Curse of The Toad" (Der Fluch der Kröte).

The Crying Boy

Steve Punt, a British writer and comedian, investigated the curse of the crying boy in a BBC radio Four production called Punt PI.

The Curse of Curves

"The Curse of Curves" is the second single and eighth track on Cute Is What We Aim For's debut album The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch.

The Curse of Naar

The Curse of Naar is the twentieth book in the award-winning Lone Wolf book series created by Joe Dever.

The Curse of Oak Island

The Curse of Oak Island follows two brothers, Marty Lagina and Rick Lagina, originally from Kingsford, Michigan, through their effort to find the speculated - and as yet undiscovered - buried treasure, believed to have been concealed through extraordinary means on Oak Island.

The Curse of the Cat People

The Curse of the Cat People is a 1944 film directed by Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise, and produced by Val Lewton.

Film historian William K. Everson found the same sense of beauty at work in The Curse of the Cat People and Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête.

Lewton grew up not far from Tarrytown, where the story is set, and was fond of ghost stories such as "The Headless Horseman" (Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow") which is cited in The Curse of the Cat People.

The Curse of the Incredible Priceless Corncob

The Curse of the Incredible Priceless Corncob is the seventh in the Hank the Cowdog series of children's novels by John R. Erickson.

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

French singer-songwriter Dimie Cat pays a tribute to the American director through the film The Curse of the Jade Scorpion in the song Woody Woody, from the album ZigZag.

The Curse of the Wendigo

The Curse of the Wendigo is a 2010 young adult horror novel by Rick Yancey.

The Curse of the Wraydons

The Curse of the Wraydons is a 1946 British thriller film directed by Victor M. Gover and starring Tod Slaughter, Bruce Seton and Henry Caine.

The Heart, She Holler

"Meemaw" Virginia Dare (Judith Anna Roberts) The matriarch of Heartshe Holler, and the bearer of the curse of Heartshe, being unable to die – though Boss Hoss reveals at the end of Season 1 that the real secret curse is that she can die, through unspecified means, and if she does it will result in the destruction of Heartshe Holler.

The House of Atreus Act I

This album is the first part of a metal opera inspired by the Oresteia, a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus.

The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

In December 1968, Gold Key Comics published a one-issue The New Adventures Of Huck Finn comic book, based on the episode "The Curse Of Thut" which aired around the same time.

The Return of the Shaggy Dog

In keeping with the tradition that Walt Disney introduced films, Return of the Shaggy Dog was introduced by Disney CEO Michael Eisner, who attempts to invoke the transformation on Wilby, but when Eisner states the words, he has passed on the curse from Wilby to himself.

William Alfred

Other works included Agamemnon, The Curse of an Aching Heart (also starring Dunaway), Nothing Doing, and Cry for Us All, a musical adaptation of Hogan's Goat.