But be sure you don't go off route or you might find yourself in a mysterious cave ... saddled with an ancient curse.

Switching voices brings home the unreliable narrator quality of this mystifying but also at times agonisingly slow story of a priceless jewel that carries with it an ancient curse.

The storm was predicted by an ancient curse guarding the tomb.

So lots of doomed locals and ancient curses and even a standing stone, then.

Amounts to an ancient curse.

After 50,000 years, it seems, mankind still can't escape the curse of making curses.

Does dependence on oil doom a country to a stagnant economy and corrupt polity, or do good luck and good institutions enable some countries to escape the curse?

She has escaped the curse of being just a royal ex.

The thirst, the appetite to lift the curse and finally win the title, remains.

To lift the curse, their fellow fabled characters join them on a journey into and through the woods.

He tracks her down before searching for a ring that can lift the curse.

They travel to find the materials to help lift the curse.

Flint delivers the rest of the gold to the mapmaker, who lifts the curse.

And which might actually put a curse on passengers?

Unfortunately, she was born with tiny snakes as her hair for the old witch had put a curse on her family.

I'll put a curse on this team that will hoodoo it until the end of time.

Because of this a bishop put a curse on the abbey; the bell then plummeted into the lake.

Tony's lie seems to have put a curse on what should otherwise have been a simple day of fishing for everyone.

In that culture it was considered a curse, a terrible curse, perhaps punishment for sin.

They have lived many lives together, blighted by a terrible curse.

Soon he learns about the terrible curse that haunted the village, concerning a nasty secret involving the people of that land, originally a group of miners.