An interesting, if lengthy, exploration of voodoos, curses, and hexes, or nocebos (the antithesis of placebo) and how and why they can, sometimes quite profoundly, affect people.
Nocebo effects are also seen in normal medical practice. Around 60 per cent of patients undergoing chemotherapy start feeling sick before their treatment. “It can happen days before, or [...]
What makes voodoos work, the curser or the cursed?
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 15 May, 2009 to the comment subset
The ten thousand thundering curses of Captain Haddock
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 12 May, 2009 to the comment subset
A bookmark for fans of the Tintin comic books, the complete list of Captain Haddock’s curses.
There are certainly quite a few of them…
