0 words that are intended to bring bad luck to someone or that express the hope that someone will have bad luck:
The dog, disgusted and disappointed beyond expression, sits down and howls maledictions on thieves in general and ravens in particular, to the remotest of their generations.
They saw the girl raise her hand in malediction.
An evil malediction has come into his parts.
Depending on which version is told, this curse is either a result of a witchs malediction, or because gravestones were used as building materials.
Boyce suggests that the use of the "afriti" as a malediction may derive from this cosmogonical legend.
