Cursed Mythology: Cassandra - Ep. 10

In this episode of Cursed...ish, Angela and Daniel dig into the Curse of Cassandra, the Greek myth of a woman who could literally predict disaster and still got treated like she was being dramatic. From Apollo’s extremely petty curse of a punishment to the Trojan Horse, the fall of Troy, and the brutal aftermath of war, they trace how Cassandra became mythology’s patron saint of I told you so. Along the way, they unpack the tragedy, misogyny, and cultural staying power of her story, plus why the Cassandra archetype still shows up everywhere from horror movies to modern pop culture, including Taylor Swift’s “Cassandra.” Because sometimes the real curse is not just bad luck, it’s being right while everybody around you insists on acting like an idiot.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Like he spit in her mouth. Like they were getting kinky back in like freak mythology. Like he spit in her mouth.

Daniel 0:07

Ew, what was what was Apollo's algorithm showing him on his websites? Good lord.

SPEAKER_01 0:14

I know. He's kinky.

Angela 0:29

Welcome, accursed ones, to Cursedish, a podcast about misfortune, mystery, and the stories we tell when bad luck stops feeling random. I'm Angela Mattis.

Daniel 0:38

And I'm Daniel Stevens.

Angela 0:39

Okay, Daniel, I am going to read off some lyrics to get us started with today's curse. Are you ready?

Daniel 0:45

Shoot.

Angela 0:46

Okay. When the first stone's thrown, there's screaming. In the streets, there's a raging riot. When it's burned the bitch, they're shrieking. When the truth comes out, it's quiet. So they killed Cassandra first because she feared the worst and tried to tell the town. So they filled my cell with snakes. I regret to say, Do you believe me now?

Daniel 1:05

Awww.

Angela 1:07

Poetry by the wise Taylor Ellison Swift herself.

Daniel 1:11

Okay, see, I don't know that song, but those You know what? My initial reaction is this is some deep, deep writing. I knew it was Taylor Swift. You know, I well, you know I have conflicted feelings on Taylor Swift, and I will not get into my thoughts on her.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

This was a trapdoor. I've been planning this the whole time. I'm converting you.

unknown 1:31

Yeah.

Angela 1:31

I started with a 13 episode, I was planting seeds, and now I came in for the kill. Um, all right, well, Daniel, my newest fellow Swifty, what what was it you were going to say? I cut you off.

Daniel 1:43

Oh, nothing. I'm gonna I just I think Taylor Swift is a fan of a band I like because there's a lyric she you seems to have no. Oh, don't go down this conspiracy path. Get out of here. I know, I will not go down the conspiracy. I I choose to imagine she has good taste and listens to Laura de Bango, which is an amazing band that everyone should listen to.

Angela 2:02

Are you trying to plant seeds of your own right now?

Daniel 2:04

No. Okay.

Angela 2:06

Okay, anyway, moving on. So today we'll be talking about curses in mythology, specifically the curse of Cassandra, one of the most famous curses in Greek mythology. So curses are actually very prevalent in Greek mythology. Of course, there is Medusa's curse. She's turned it from a beautiful mortal maiden and priestess of Athena into a hideous Gorgon after Poseidon violated her in Athena's temple and Athena punished her. There's of course Prometheus' torture. He is cursed by Zeus for stealing fire and defying the gods and chained to a mountain. Um, so this is a very common plot device. There are cursed stories of the city. I know.

SPEAKER_01 2:46

This is just a commercial.

Daniel 2:47

Yeah, right.

Angela 2:48

Um but one of the most famous cursed characters within Greek mythology is Cassandra. And Cassandra was immortal, she was a Trojan princess, one of the many daughters of King Priam, which he had like hundreds of children across fifty wives, but she was one of his many daughters, she was a virgin priestess, and she was devoted to the god Apollo. So of his many daughters, she is considered to be very beautiful. Homer calls her the fairest of Priam's daughters, the peer of Aphrodite. Others describe her as having light auburn hair, being tall, and having a manly or noble or stately figure. Although, as often happens in our research, I searched Cassandra on Wikipedia. And as also often happens, I found something fucking stupid. In the Wikipedia page for the story of Cassandra, there is this like little section right up top where for some reason it goes into the way that she was described by the 16th century chronicler John Malales in his account of the chronography. And she is said to have been, by John Malales, shortish, round-faced, white, mannish figure, good nose, good eyes, dark pupils, blondish, curly, good neck, bulky breasts, small feet, calm, noble, priestly, an accurate prophet foreseeing everything, practicing hard, virgin. So if you are ever like, man, Angela really sounds like she hates men, it's not that I hate men. It's just that I hate everything about them because that's how they talk about women. I know. Like bulky breasts, good neck, good nose, she'll do. I don't know why that's in the Wikipedia page. We're talking about Greek mythology. I'm gonna go scrub that myself. So Cassandra's story is scattered all throughout mythology. Homer wrote about her in both the Iliad and the Odyssey. Ovid mentions her and Metamorphoses, but her story is mostly written by Aeschylus and Agamemnon. Though there are, like I said, there are bits and pieces everywhere. But I did find, thanks to the um good work of somebody on Reddit on the Greek mythology subreddit, Blue Rose XZ had pulled all of the lines spoken by Cassandra and Agamemnon to the chorus that describe what happened to her and how she was cursed. So Cassandra says, The seer Apollo appointed me to his office. And the chorus responds, Can it be that he, a god, was smitten with desire? And Cassandra says, Before now I was ashamed to speak of this. Oh, but he struggled to win me, breathing ardent love for me. And the chorus asks, Did you in due course come to the rite of marriage? And Cassandra replies, I consented to Loxias, which is Apollo, but I broke my word. And the chorus says, Were you already possessed by the art inspired of the god? And Cassandra said, Already I prophesied to my countrymen all their disasters. The chorus responds, How came it then that you were unharmed by Loxius' wrath? And Cassandra said, Ever since that fault I could persuade no one of anything. So what happened in the story is that Cassandra is a priestess of Apollo, and he gives her the ability to see and to tell prophecy, and it's a gift.

Daniel 6:08

Do they explicitly call it a gift in the beginning? Like, is that it's framed as a gift? He gave it to her because he loved her and she was devoted to him. So yeah, I mean, he you would assume.

Angela 6:18

Yeah, well, I'll get to something about this next. But she, you know, spurns his advances and he gets angry. I mean, this happens quite often in mythology that someone is angered by something and they then resort to cursing someone.

Daniel 6:30

It's always overreactions in mythology. It's like this, like, oh, they slighted me. I turned them into a goose for eternity.

Angela 6:37

Yeah, literally. Or like have them roll a rock up a hill while their innards are getting pecked out by eagles every single day because they had the audacity to give humans power and fire. Well, actually, that one maybe tracks. That one maybe tracks.

Daniel 6:55

Yeah, I'm starting to come along on Prometheus was wrong.

Angela 6:58

Okay, so I was talking to my friend Jenny, who has a master's degree in the classics and is a expert in Greek mythology, and she told me something about the story that I did not find in any other research. And I looked it up though. This is now in my Google history, that according to several versions of Greek mythology, the god Apollo spit into the mouth of Trojan priestess Cassandra. Oh like he spit in her mouth. So, um, because divine gifts, so to answer your question, it says because divine gifts cannot be revoked, Apollo could not take back the power of prophecy. Instead, to punish her, he spit into her mouth, contaminating his gift with a curse. She would always see the truth of the future, but no one would ever believe her.

SPEAKER_01 7:45

Like he spit in her mouth. Like they were getting kinky back in like Greek mythology. Like he spit in her mouth.

Daniel 7:52

Ew, what was what was Apollo's algorithm showing him on his websites? Good lord.

SPEAKER_01 7:59

I know. He's kinky.

Daniel 8:02

So so but so it explicitly went from gift to oh, guess what? I'm gonna be a petty man about it. Now it's a curse.

Angela 8:08

Yeah.

Daniel 8:09

Yeah, okay, okay.

Angela 8:10

Tried to have sex with her, and she said no. Uh Tail as old as time. So he cursed her by spitting in her mouth and making it so no one would ever believe her, which was terrible timing because Cassandra's story takes place during the Trojan War. And she saw it all coming. So before the war even begins, Cassandra prophecies that Paris is going to fall in love with Helen of Sparta and lure her away from her husband, King Menelaus. And that will bring about the destruction of Troy, which this is, of course, the story ages old as time. And no one listened to her. They called her a madwoman, and she was, of course, enraged. And so, of course, it all happens as she said, but no one thinks back to her prophecies and believes her. Paris falls in love with Helen, the war breaks out, and now, you know, all hell has broken loose. She tried to warn everyone also that the Trojan horse was a trap. And she said, This is they're, you know, celebrating in the streets and they're all excited about this gift they've been given. And she's like, No, you fucking idiots. The Greeks are inside. Like, this is a trap. This is the Trojan horse. And they didn't believe her, so she took an axe and a torch, then rushed at the Trojan horse, but she was stopped by the Trojans, and they like stopped her, of course, you know, insulted her. And inside of the Trojan horse, the Greeks were like, Woo, close call.

Daniel 9:30

This is like a horror movie where there's always a moment where someone's like, There's a murderer over there, and the security guard's always like, Oh, shut up, you're so stupid. Have a drink. You know, and it's like, be fun. Just look, just like carry a gun over there and point it and look and go look, and then just why would they not just why wouldn't they just look inside the like what was the damage? What would have been the negative if that's what is, Daniel?

Angela 9:52

Because we're telling epic myths.

Daniel 9:54

Like, if that if this were all true and that actually happened, and I saw people.

Angela 9:58

Well, actually, I do think the Trojan War did occur. They have proven that at that time. So, but I don't know if I don't know where legend begins if this whole thing. I mean Cassandra didn't exist, but um, to our knowledge. But like Apollo did not spit in anyone's mouth and and curse them.

Daniel 10:19

That's what Apollo wants you to think. He's trying to do a PR campaign, clean up his image for the new mo the modern age.

Angela 10:27

Yeah. He's he's launching an OnlyFans next week and he needs he needs to start out on a good foot. Um, anyway. Um, so Troy is sacked and the Trojans lose the war, and though Cassandra told everyone that this was going to happen, it's really actually like her story is a tragedy. Even in mythology, in stories that are tragedies, that's when the chorus is a part of the story. So when I was reading that section of like from Agamemnon, when it's telling her story and she's speaking to the chorus, that is kind of like a mark in in mythology that it is a tragedy. Yeah. And so she suffered greatly at the end of the war, and it really honestly goes downhill from here. So at the sacking of Troy, actually throughout the war, multiple times people tried to help her. So um Corobas and Athronus came to the aid of Troy during the Trojan War out of love for Cassandra and in exchange for her hand in marriage, but like both of them were killed. So there were people who were coming out of the woodwork who were trying to fight for her and trying to save her, because I mean she was a priestess of Apollo, she was the daughter of of the king Priam. Um, and even Priam offered Cassandra to Telephys' son, Eurypulus, in order to induce Eurypulus to fight on the side of the Trojans. And she I mean, obviously that didn't work either.

Daniel 11:47

It's just so casual to like use people as tokens and as like bartering.

Angela 11:51

It's like I Yeah, one of the major criticisms of mythology is just how much women are used as pawns. Yeah. And a lot of, you know, there's just there's a lot of violence against women, and like there is a lot of violence against Cassandra. Hers is a horri, horribly sad story. So, um, after the war, Cassandra seeks shelter in the Temple of Athena, and she's in the temple, and she is found by Ajax the Lesser, and he brutally rapes her. And this, like, the way it's described is like she's holding on to a statue of Athena, like for dear life, and he's like ripping her away from it and raping her brutally. Um, there's actually a lot of paintings, like, this is sort of the moment in the story that has been immortalized in multiple paintings, and like they're just heartbreaking of like Ajax like coming in and very just brutally hurting Cassander.

Daniel 12:44

Please tell me they see uh he gets a horrible fate in the stories.

Angela 12:48

Yes. Which is good because he actually does face accountability. So Athena is infuriated, she throws a thunderbolt at Ajax's ship and she destroys it, casting him out into the sea, but he catches on and holds on to a rock, and he's sitting there being like, ha ha, like thinking he really got away with that one. And it's kind of funny because Poseidon's just like no, you didn't, and Poseidon literally like rises up with his trident and splits the rock, and Ajax is then truly cast out into the sea where his and then his body washes up ashore, and that handled that. Good riddance, but still, like just the brutality of that moment, and then that's not even where it ends for her. So after that happens, after she's raped by Ajax, she's taken as a concubine by King Agamemnon of Mycenae. And while that king was away at war, his wife, Clytemnestra, had taken a lover, Aegisthus, and they, for I guess, I mean, maybe there's more reason to be found within the story, but this one kind of seems a little bit crappy to me. Is that King Agamemnon returns with Cassandra to Mycenae and they're ambushed and murdered by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. And so it's said that in many of the different tellings in in mythology, Cassandra foresaw her death, and she's just like, things aren't going great, time to go. So she accepts it.

SPEAKER_02 14:13

Yeah.

Angela 14:13

Um, her story just in general is very, it's very tragic, but the kind of moral of the story is like to listen to the woman who's prophecying to it, kind of actually sort of opens up this like deeper discussion around misogyny and around listening to women, and I think that's why it really stood out to Taylor Swift as a story to immortalize in one of her songs and to write some, you know, write the poetic lyrics about because it's something that happens often to women where we see things coming and we say something and we speak up and we are met with ridicule or brutality. And obviously, I I mean for Cassandra, I hope nothing that happened to this m mythological woman would happen to an actual woman, but um it is it's become, I think, a very interesting plot device as well. And it's we find it kind of cropping up in different stories throughout time because I think it is a really it's almost like a parable, The Curse of Cassandra.

Daniel 15:11

100%. I mean, there's absolutely lessons you can learn from it.

Angela 15:15

I think the other thing that it really kind of can create a bet a bit of conversation around, and this is sort of a sticky topic, but it's about believing women and believing when they say that something is wrong or that something has happened, and like it's interesting that her story, which was told thousands of years ago, it begins with her being propositioned by Apollo, and she says no, like she's a virgin priestess, she's like sleeping in his in his temple, and she's come to serve him, and he like comes to take advantage of her and he asks her for something, and there's like some back and forth hearsay that like, and I guess even when you look at the verses that she says in the um in Agamemnon, she says, um, she says, The Seer Apollo appointed me to this office. So, what she's saying is like he gave me my ability to prophecy, he appointed me to his to his temple, and the chorus is that you know, oh he he must have desired you, and she said, Before now I was ashamed to speak of this, but he struggled to win me, breathing ardent love for me. And the chorus is like, Yeah, but you probably married him, didn't you? Right? And she said, I consented to Loxias, but broke my word. And I think it's interesting that this conversation already existed thousands of years ago of like because she broke her word, like no is no, no is a no is the final, like, is a sentence, no is a complete sentence. And um, and yet they're even asking the question of like, you know, did you marry him? Were you didn't why didn't she want his advances? Like, why didn't you want this? And then when she's cur like, and then she's cursed as a result of of saying no, even though like she consented, but she broke her word, it's like, well, still, like, no was no, and he still in this story um curses her as a result. It's just a very cautionary tale.

Daniel 17:12

I I would say I I've seen Cassandra used in other media as like a symbolic part of a story, and like Yeah, where? Where have you seen that? So, for example, I immediately thought of There's a very famous part of Scream 2 that uses Cassandra. Nev Campbell's character, Sydney, in the second movie, she's in college and she's doing like theater, and she's playing Cassandra in her production during the the murders that are unfolding in the movie. Obviously, people are not believing Cassandra, that's like very uh like the point of her curse. And in the Scream series, and specifically in Scream 2, Sydney's always trying to like convince people like this shit's dangerous, or like trying to, you know, get people to take stuff seriously, and people are and like we're saying, there's you know, hey, there's a murder over there. Oh no, ma'am, you're just being crazy, like that kind of stuff. So that happened like that clearly happens all throughout the movie, too. Is she's just begging people to take this situation seriously. It's just where my mind went immediately.

Angela 18:08

Well, I think we see it often. Um, I mean, it's a typical trope in movies that like someone says something and then they're ignored, like, you know, d Dr. Ellie Sattler in Jurassic Park is warning about system failures and nobody is listening to her, and they keep full seeming ahead, and then everybody starts, you know, and then they gotta hold on to their butts because the dinosaurs have broken free.

Daniel 18:30

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Angela 18:31

Yeah, well, even kind of like circling back to the song by Taylor Swift, um, I think that Taylor Swift has kind of tried to speak up in the music industry about things that, like, for example, there's the famous whole feud with Kanye West, and they said um Kim recorded her on that phone call, that famous phone call, and then they kind of twisted it and put it out as a narrative that like she had said these things and it was unfair, and then it came out years later because like Taylor kept on saying, like, that's not how the conversation went down, that's not what I meant to say, like that was taken out of context, and then um it ended up, and I know there was the whole like Taylor Swift is a snake, so she says in like Taylor Swift says in the lyrics that they filled my cell with snakes. I regret to say, Do you believe me now? And it's interesting because when Cassandra received the gift of prophecy from Apollo in the first place, sacred snakes in his temple would lick her ears as actually she and both her her twin brother Hellenus, they both received the gift of prophecy from Apollo, and um sacred snakes would lick their ears as children, enabling them to hear the future. So that's like a piece of kind of the the myth that's told. And so is that where parcel tongue came from, pretty much? I don't know. Another thing that J.K. Roll and Jake stole it from mythology, Jesus, not a single original idea that woman had. Um, no, but it's really interesting. I mean, do you know the lore of Taylor Swift and Snakes and why Reputation album? That whole album is all like the symbolism and the imagery of the snake. Like when everything went down with Kim and Kanye and they first released that video that that really like I remember when that happened because I was a neutral Taylor Swift non-fan. I was just kind of like, I was a neutral party. I had I had no I had no dog in this fight. Um, but I remember that time when um they like I don't know if they called her a snake, but it became sort of like the term of the moment that Taylor Swift is a snake, and people over-inundated all of her social media. I remember seeing the comments over and over again with the snake emoji. It's just snake, snake, snake. They were calling her a snake. And so I think when you think about the song Cassandra, what she is saying and what she's kind of referring back to is like she said that they, you know, have misrepresented what she was saying, and that really that whole thing to her was, I mean, she kind of went into she thought her career was over, she thought that she had been essentially cancelled. She kind of got the message and said, Fine, I'm going to step away. So she stepped away for a year, and that's when she wrote the Reputation album, which is my favorite album, but all the imagery of it is kind of the snake, and it's her sort of speaking back to the way that she's talked about in the media and called a snake, and the way that she was honestly like harassed and treated, and it all turned out in the end that like years later it came out that Kim had sort of like you know, it was clear that she had tricked her and that that the recording I think had been like doctored or whatever. So she obviously wrote the song Cassandra after the fact, but She's talking about a time even in her own life where she was saying that's not how that conversation went down, that's not what happened. And then it's just interesting, like that, even the the imagery comes and everybody jumped on the like she said, when it's burned the bitch, they're shrieking. Everybody jumped on that bandwagon and everybody kind of turned on her. And um, I I like love, I mean, I've we've established that we love some petty bees. But um, like her being like, Do you believe me now? in the lyrics, and it's like a beautiful song. So it's interesting to see. Um, I think we can take this, you know, myth of Cassandra and apply it to so many things that are present day and apply it to things that have happened in, you know, moments in our own lives and Taylor Swift's lives, and it's just so prevalent, even in this moment right now, where it's like women, it's like it's sad how cyclical it is. It's sad we're still talking about this years later, thousands of years later, that women aren't believed, and we all still see ourselves. Taylor Swift sees herself in the story. I see not myself per se, but I see the plight of women, I see things that are happening in the world in the media, and we're seeing this story constantly play out, and it's almost like like it's taken on this additional layer of like we see this happening time and time again, and we say it's happening time again and time again, and it still happens, so nobody is listening. It's like it's a manifestation of the curse itself within.

Daniel 23:28

Yeah, I mean, the Trojan horse has been revealed time and time again to have had Greeks hiding on the inside, and yet people are still the next time they're like, I don't know, that horse doesn't seem like it's a trap. It's it really it's a metaphorical Trojan horse, yeah.

Angela 23:45

Yeah, yeah.

Daniel 23:45

The metaphor, you know, whether it's peeling back what's really going on in certain industries, whatever you have as the thing that in society we're trying to improve and trying to lessen the harms being done to people just trying to live in our society. And even after she was proven right at least once, and then a second and then XYZ zillionth time, and they still don't believe her, it's just like oh, I have a list I have a list of all the prophecies.

Angela 24:13

She made so many prophecies. She warned the Trojans about the Greeks hiding in the Trojan horse, she prophesied Agamemnon's death and her own demise. She um propheed the ten-year wanderings of Odysseus, the murder of um Clytemnestra and Aegis. So it's like she propheed all of these things, and it's like funny. Like, this is a mythological legend. This is a made-up story, and they still, instead of like leaving it at a couple things, like she had so many things that she prophesied, and nobody ever listened to her. And it's like, it's almost like even then they knew it was like nothing will ever stop this. Like, we nothing ever will change the cyclicality of this tragic story.

Daniel 24:53

Yeah, and obviously, mythology is-I mean, I I don't think I'm like a revelation in this idea, but mythology is a way that people use to try to like ruminate on life and ruminate on the world. Yeah, and so the fact that thousands of years ago they're like, Yeah, women are gonna tell us things that are important and could help us, and we're gonna continuously kick ourselves in the face and fail because for some reason we cannot believe them. And yeah, and I uh thousands of years ago it was true, and it is true today, and apparently is gonna be true tomorrow, which is just beyond frustrating.

Angela 25:29

And that is the real curse. Wow, this this episode kind of like everyone's gonna be like, they came from the curses in the pineas, and they're leaving with a little bit of sad sad. I mean, I know it's a very tragic story, but I did find one thing in my research that kind of tells the ending of Cassandra's story a little differently and gives her a better ending in some regards to her myth, which is that Cassandra intentionally actually left behind a chest that was cursed in Troy. So in the sacking of Troy and the Fall of Troy, she, you know, at this point is of course, she hasn't been through any of like the horrors that occur after the war. So she's still just kind of like pissed off and in her rage of like, I told you so, and you didn't listen to me. So, in kind of like a petty moment, she leaves behind a cursed chest, and that chest is then taken and given to the Greeks in kind of like their treasures they gain, like the spoils of Troy as it falls. And so um the Greek leader, Euryculus, he takes this chest and he doesn't realize that Cassandra has cursed it, and he opens it, and when he opens it, he is given the like all this knowledge and intelligence, and he sees the image of God and he goes mad. So it's kind of like a total reversal of her curse, where like she's giving you information and you are not taking it, so she gives him information and it curses him into madness.

Daniel 27:01

That's amazing. That's I get it, girl. That's her taking her power, I think. That is her she was cursed with knowledge. She said, You know what? I'm gonna use knowledge to curse you, knowledge of the divine.

Angela 27:10

And I think Taylor Swift also took quite a bit of her power back by releasing the most badass album. I love Reputation, I love that album, and obviously we've seen her go on to be, you know, everything that's gone well for her.

Daniel 27:25

So I mean, Taylor Swift, a couple years ago, she has a song titled Cassandra evokes the thought of uses Cassandra's story, and that that makes me think of something that I I really appreciate about this whole idea of this like cursed mythology is Cassandra is mythology. Mythology is not decided. No one can decide what is or is not part of Cassandra's story. So we like society could decide how her story ends, and I almost think we have made it end differently because when you say Cassandra nowadays, yes, you know, oh, that is a she was a a woman who was not listened to, was treated poorly, but and bad things happened to her, but her story is now profound and inspiring to people in the modern day, I would say, and that's almost like that is like that's now her story is is that instead of the story of her curse, and that's it's it's gonna continue, and however people use her story is what that story is gonna be. And I kinda like that idea that it's not set in stone, it's set in however we're using it.

Angela 28:27

Right. Well, hopefully someday we will be using it as a way to describe a period of time that we uh have ended and we no longer, you know, have some of this misogyny in the way that we live and the way our society operates, and that we listen to people. We listen to women.

Daniel 28:46

Yeah, hopefully we can look back at and say, what would have been like for people not to listen to Cassandra? That's insane to the or that is unbelievable that they wouldn't have just listened to the case. Those Trojan dum-dums. Yeah, uh I wish that were the perspective we were looking at it from and somewhere that yeah, yeah.

Angela 29:03

So I feel like this one's a little I feel like we went down some interesting pathways and had some interesting conversation, but I don't really know if the answer or the question to answer at the end of this is cursed or cursed-ish. But still.

Daniel 29:16

Maybe cursed, maybe not.

Angela 29:19

See you next week. Cursed-ish is an ish media production. It explores stories of alleged curses, historical mysteries, and supernatural claims. While we do investigate the history and the evidence behind these stories, ultimately you should decide for yourself what to believe. If you have questions, comments, or your own accursed tales to share, send us a hex at uh oh at cursedish.com. That's uh oh u h o h all one word at cursedish all one word.com