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Oaths, Curses
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Abstract Oaths and curses are interrelated verbal acts of human communication with the divine. Curses are requests to a supernatural force that evil may befall another. Oaths are promises or assertions guaranteed by invoking the gods and calling upon oneself an explicit or implicit self-curse. The underlying belief in the punitive powers of the gods differentiates the oath from mere promise or assertion and the curse from invective. Distinctive linguistic indicators occur within a framework of various private and public performances of swearing and cursing. Oath (
hórkos) and curse …
Date:
2014-01-22
