OPENING QUOTE: “These days there are angry ghosts all around us. Dead from wars, sickness, starvation, and nobody cares. So you say you’re under a curse - so what? So’s the whole damn world.” (Princess Mononoke) 

BOOKS AND STORIES: 

Ella Enchanted (Gail Carson Levine) “Toads and Diamonds” and “The Kind and the Unkind Girl” 

The Chocolate Touch (Patrick Skene Catling) 

King Midas “The Fairy’s Mistake” (Gail Carson Levine) 

Macha (Celtic) 

The Morrigan (Celtic) 

Cassandra 

Medusa 

Pasiphae 

Prometheus 

Sisyphus 

Tantalus “Beauty and the Beast” 

“The Six Swans” 

Folktales of origins: Why Snake Has No Legs, for example. 

The Bone Houses (Emily Lloyd-Jones) 

The Bone Maker (Sarah Beth Durst) 

Fairy tale of the princess so beautiful she strikes men blind 

Folktale from India of the man cursed to have untold stories come out of his body 

The House of Atreus (Greek): Pelops, Tantalus, Agamemnon (+ Clytemnestra), Menelaus (+ Helen), Orestes, Electra 

Anaxibia 

The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van den Kolk) 

The Wisdom of Your Body (Hillary L. McBride) 

Defenestrate (Renee Branum) 

“The Sixty-two Curses of Caliph Arenschadd” by Patricia C. Wrede 

The Narts vs. God 

Irish ritual curses 

TV SHOWS AND FILMS: 

Love, Death + Robots: “Jibaro” 

Holes (2003 film based on the novel by Louis Sachar) 

Encanto (2021) 

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) 

Penelope (2006) 

Maleficent (2014) 

Frozen (2013) 

The Owl House