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Every single person who talks about ‘haha Egyptian curses’ as if they were some supernatural beings (or, possibly, aliens) and not just black people who were good at building owes me $10

*ding ding ding* Spooky PoC culture trope for $500 Alex

#The Romans are somehow never spooky and those guys did shit to chickens that makes the Egyptians look tame 

like seriously can we get some “I’m scared of the Romans” posts up in here because if ever there were a group of bastards who WOULD put a curse on anything that couldn’t be nailed down…

I was once present when a lead curse tablet was excavated and it was some dude cursing whomever had stolen his favourite cloak. He’d stabbed the lead it many times.

Then there was an addendum that said that he revoked the curse because no one stole it, it was his mother who’d taken it for washing. 

#the romans are a riot and y'all should fear them

#the Egyptians won’t even leave Egypt to get you

#they’re lazy af

and also incredibly practical so WAY less likely to curse you and leave that up to whatever god/karma/crazy random happenstance and far MORE likely to just whack you over the head with a bowl.

I work in a museum featuring the Roman Baths from when the Romans first landed in England in 43 AD and we’ve found lead curses where someone’s stolen their clothes from the apodyterium (changing room) and they hope Sulis Minerva pulls their brains out through their ears.

Romans are dramatic little shits that get upset over the slightest inconvenience.

I looked through the comments, and this one was gold.

Fear the Romans not the Egyptians, kids. FEAR THEM

Touch our clothes and your are dead meat

Idk about you but I’ll keep fearing egyptian curses cos im not to fond of ‘find ancient egyptian tomb and die mysteriously soon after’ ying for tryng to learn aint my thing.

Congrats on missing the point of this post harder than any other person in the notes.

There is still no such thing as an Egyptian ‘curse’ and it’s still racist “ooh scary POC” trope bullshit but do you I guess

Imagine still falling for 1920s media scaremongering in 2019. 

Imagine if more people knew that the idea of a ‘curse’ in a tomb was brought about because Howard Carter gave exclusive rights to The Times to publish details of Tutankhamun’s tomb, leaving the other newspapers with no new sensational information of this new tomb and are so pissed off about this they try to ruin the dig by printing scary totally real curse stories (uwu). Of course this is all anyone ever remembers from this time. 

Imagine for just one second that most curses in Ancient Egypt require you to actively believe in the Ancient Egyptian gods, and also have the same cultural beliefs (like having an image destroyed, so if you delete that selfie you’re going to hell Karen). 

Finally this is an example of an actual Egyptian curse (Donation Stele of Harkhebe, 23rd Dynasty, Late Period, Bubastis):

ir pA nty iw=f <r> tht pAy wD Hr st=f 

 iw=f r Sat n nsw nxt 

 iw=f <r> xr r nmt n sxmt  

pA nty iw=f thi pAy wD 

“As for the one who will go against this stela in its place, he is for the slaughter of the powerful king, he will fall to the slaughter block of Sekhmet, the one who will go against this stela.”

Or this one from an actual tomb (Tomb of Harkhuf, 6th Dynasty, Old Kingdom, Aswan):

ir s nb aq.ty=fy r is=i [pn m abw=f] [iw=i r iTt]=f mi Apd  iw=f r wDa Hr=s in nTr aA

As for any man who will enter [this] tomb of mine [in his impurity], [I will wring] him like a bird, he will be judged about it by the Great God.

So, I’ll say once again: 

Believing in Egyptian Curses is*ding ding ding* Spooky PoC culture trope for $500 Alex

hang on i wanna see the actual curses!!! they got gibberished and idk if tumblr screwed it up or what but i wanna see!!!

I know it’s been like 5 months since you said this, but here I am late to the party (because someone just reblogged it from me and I looked in the notes) to explain why they’re not gibberish. The ‘gibberish’ is transliteration of Egyptian Hieroglyphs, which is the code we use to translate them into our modern languages. There isn’t anything else to see but the hieroglyphs themselves. 

But I’ve spent the last hour or so fiddling with a programme to get the hieroglyphs for you. For ease, I’ve spaced them nicely and kept to the exact same format as the lines above, so each line of transliteration above corresponds to each line of hieroglyphs below:

Harkhebe:

Harkhuf:

(A note on philological markups: the shading represents damage to the original text, which is what the square brackets are for in the transliteration, the chevron brackets are just to indicate where a sign has been omitted in the original text, but restored in transcription)

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It is an unspoken rule that if a little kid is hiding under a blanket or couch cushions, you are required to comment on how lumpy the blanket is and pretend to sit on it to try and “smooth it out.”

Also, if you’re playing hide-and-seek with them, it is critical that you search every other possible (and impossible) hiding spot, all the while wondering out loud how they managed to disappear just like magic, before walking right past their hiding spot.

And if a baby starts playing peekaboo you are required to act surprised when they show their face again

If a kid hands you a phone, you answer it

If a kid shoots you with a Nerf Gun you are supposed to Die a dramatic death and explain “ugh you shot me blaahh”

when you push a kid on the swings ya gotta do the woosh

I literally just blocked about a dozen people on this post for being cranky about children.

Being a joyless shitbeast to kids isn’t cool. They’re kids. If you want to be Oscar the Grouch, that’s fine, but do it in a way they understand and explain it to them.

“I don’t want to play, I’m grumpy. Thank you, though, that was kind.”

It’s literally not hard. Kids are small people. Treat them with common fucking decency.

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*makes a phone call*

*walks around in circles*

Fun fact: your brain is trying to find the person you’re talking to because it hears them but can’t see them.

Fucking stupid ass brain

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Heres the thing you gotta understand about statistics. 

“Increases your chances by 80%” does not mean “there is now an 80% chance”. 

If your chances were previously 10%, your chances are now 18%, not 90%. 

if your chances were roughly 1%, they’re now just slightly less than 2%. 

thats how that works. 

Wow I don’t understand math at all

‘if you have a baby after 35, the chance of deformities goes up by 100%’ is a line I hear alot.

It goes up from .5% to 1%

for those that are confused, multiple the original statistic/number by the percentage. so in this case, .5% times 100% is still .5% (since it’s 100% of the same number), and since that’s the amount the previous statistic increases by, you add it to that said statistic. so 0.5% + 0.5% = 1%

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THE ANIMAL NOT THE COP KHFGJFGHHHJ

Same energy

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sorry i have bubonic plague i can’t hang out tonight

aw rats

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