Saw this link elsewhere, but this has a definite Bizarre Spin.

In ancient Carlisle, England, the city erected a granite stone on which was inscribed an ancient 1,069 word curse against "robbers, blackmailers and highwaymen" from the ArchBishop of Glasgow. Christians in the city insist that the erection of the stone has unleased a series of disasters of biblical proportions and are insisting that the stone be destroyed. Uri Gellar has stepped in and said he will remove the stone to his garden and lift the curse with a pendulum. Waitaminute! I want the stone!!

http://www.cumbria-online.co.uk/viewarticle.asp?id=185448

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050302/140/fdk0t.html


Click here!

I would love to see the entire thing and perhaps make a prop of it!

http://www.timesonline.co.uk

This has part of the curse...

As curses go, it’s pretty good. “I curse thair heid and all the haris of thair heid,” began Archbishop Gavin Dunbar. “I curse thair face, thair ene, thair mouth, thair neise, thair toung, thair teith, thair crag, thair schulderis, thair breist, thair hert, thair stomok, thair bak, thair wame, their armes, thair leggis, thair handis, thair feit, and everilk part of thair body, frae the top of their heid to the soill of thair feit, befoir and behind, within and without.

” And on it goes, for 1,069 words, although Young’s sculpture used only 383.

Ah, found a picture of the whole stone...

http://www.visitcumbria.com/car/millsub.htm

Ah HA! The entire curse and what a curse it is!

http://www.imbecility.com/glasgow.htm

The Stone is beautiful.

I was confused at first, thinking that the stone was as old as the curse, which would be weird, since the stone is engraved in what seems to be Bodoni Typography, and Giambattista Bodoni was born in 1740.

But now I saw that the curse is antique and the stone new.

Thanks for the links Clifford!

Oh, dear! I seem to have laughed too hard on that one! I love it!