Ancient Christians and the Power of Curses: Magic, Aesthetics, and Justice - Hardcoverby Laura Salah Nasrallah (Author) Ancient Christians and their non Christian contemporaries lived in a world of 'magic.' Sometimes, they used curses as ritual objects to seek justice from gods and other beings; sometimes, they argued against them. Curses, and the writings of those who polemicized against curses, reveal the complexity of ancient Mediterranean religions, in which materiality, poetics, song, incantation, and glossolalia were used as