'Black magic' curse inscribed onto ancient stone tablet called on the 'mother of witches'

[Gary]

Now, this is just fascinating/cool:

Stone tablets hidden in the Museum of Bologna's archives may contain a terrible, ancient curse calling a devil-goddess to bind and torment a named victim.

The tablets were hidden in the archives for nearly a century - thought to have been put aside at the start of World War I - and rediscovered in 2009. The tablets are believed to be 1600 years old.

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