More Book Curses--and my own!
A few more links I found: http://www.library.vcu.edu/preservation/curse.html http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/specialcollections/exhibits/past/ploughing/index.htm I was trying to work on a poem for "inspiration" but these curses make me laugh. So, inspired by a favorite curse all around--book in the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona I wrote my own. The Original: For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand & rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, & all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain crying aloud for mercy, & let there be no surcease to his agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not, & when at last he goeth to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him for ever. from a book in the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona I wasn't found of the rhyme from this one but I did like the sentime...