Hey folks, Aaron here.

Welcome to Deeper LORE. This is a short bonus episode designed to be a topical guide to the most recent episode of

LORE. I've explained it before, but for those who are new, are new deeper lore is here to help you find

similar episodes to the most recent one. There are so many episodes in our catalog now after

nine plus years that it's pretty difficult to track down specific ones.

It's not a gimmick to grab downloads or sell ads.

It's just my attempt at a helpful tool for the Super-fan who wants to take the ideas and

concepts from the most recent episode of

lore to go a bit deeper thus deeper lore. This week with episode 256

cursed we get back to one of those really core ideas that you find all throughout

folklore pretty much no matter where you go around the world.

Curses. It truly is an ancient idea and there are a ton of examples that I

could reference here but my favorite story is probably one from an episode last year about Sir Mortimer Wheeler, an archaeologist who discovered a strange connection between two small objects.

One was a gold ring that had been found in England

by a farmer back in 1785, and the other

was a scrap known as a curse tablet,

found just 100 miles from the ring's home, but many, many years later.

The weird thing about them, though, was that they both had the same Roman name inscribed on

them, Senecianus.

According to the curse tablet, a man named Sylvanius had lost his precious

ring and believed that it had been stolen by Senecianus, which was true. Senecianus even went as far as

to engrave his own name on his ill-gotten goods.

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