So, there are these oulden curse tablets. Back in the day, as they tell you on TV and intraweb, someone (lets say, Pious Romanus, the joe dirt of ancient rome. OK, john doe, sheesh, lets get on with it...) would take a tablet of lead, and inscribe a curse on it, usually towards a theif, and invoke some god to do said criminal harm. These were apparently buried with the dead as well.
OK, now lets use a little logic. Taking what we know of people, and governments, this is probably what really went on:
Sounds like a wanted poster to me, perhaps a little fancy, but same thing. Hang up a "curse" with all the likely suspects, and the gods would seek out and destroy, much like spybot does. Why the religious connotation? Who knows, maybe in a strict empire like the Ceasars had, there might not have been much room for vigilantes or bounty hunters, legally, so this might be a step around that. Somebody died, and the case was now meaningless, so they threw the tablet in with the recently deceased.
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thats my other blog, where i put my short stories. You should go there and bookshark it. i mean mark, bookmark it. yeah.
There, its not a waste of a day after all. I should do this more often.
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