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IMAGE COURTESY OF ALFREDO DAGLI ORTI/SHUTTERSTOCK
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Could a rock, an amulet, a locket, a ring, a book, or a sword offer you supernatural powers or protection? Think King Arthur’s Excalibur or the Egyptian Book of the Dead (pictured above). Over the centuries, people believed in these “charmed” objects—and thought other items brought curses.
Why did belief persist in these objects, which often were cited in changing the course of history? Some supposedly carry curses to this day, such as rocks taken from the massive Australian monolith Uluru, or Ayers Rock (pictured below).
“The romantic nature of the stories swirling around them encouraged people to keep believing, even with little evidence to prove their validity,” Nat Geo’s History magazine reports.
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