{"id":19648,"date":"2022-12-05T13:25:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T12:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jagodina.museum\/proklet-bio\/"},"modified":"2023-01-18T11:11:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T10:11:23","slug":"proklet-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jagodina.museum\/en\/proklet-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn you… (!?)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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By: Branislav Cvetkovi\u0107<\/a>, museum advisor<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Curses, witchcraft, spell casting, and fortune telling are ancient forms of superstition that has always been present across the planet and in all world cultures and religions. It is found both in Old Testament (God curses snake<\/em>) and in New (Jesus curses barren fig tree<\/em>). In public discourse curses can still often be heard today through addresses of politicians and church dignitaries…<\/strong><\/p>

Since 2013 (also in 2017 and 2019) our media have often republished the same \u201cnews\u201d about \u201cVilla Stajkovi\u0107\u201d in Vrnja\u010dka Spa, which on its fa\u00e7ade has a red marble plaque with an unusual text containing a curse \u2013 Blagoje and Jelena Stajkovi\u0107 as owners of the house in golden letters on this plaque state: \u201cwe leave a curse on whoever sells and whoever buys this house.\u201d A newspaper comment conveys opinion of the citizens that this kind of curse is unheard of in their area and can be explained by customs from Negotin, the place of origin of the house owner. Ethnographic studies, however, record such data elsewhere as a custom after which one must not sell estates to strangers but rather to relatives or neighbors, so a house owner in some Slavonic villages would say on his deathbed: \u201cI curse, my children, whoever sells our estate and whoever buys it.\u201d<\/p>

One such monument is preserved within the Epigraphic Collection<\/em> of our Museum. It is a dark stone slab with the following carved text: \u201cThe estate of Miladin Pe\u0161i\u0107, a potter from Pirot, erected for our memory by Miladin and Persa, we curse whoever sold it.\u201d Since there is no data in museum documentation on how the slab arrived in the fund, it probably comes from a ruined house in Leva\u010d street, on which fa\u00e7ade it sat. The archives display Miladin Pe\u0161i\u0107 was son of Juliana and Jana\u0107ko Pe\u0161i\u0107, farmers from Ni\u0161or village near Pirot. On July 29, 1919, he remarried\u00a0 as a 36-year-old widower, to 32-year-old Persida, widow of Lazar Hajdukovi\u0107, a farmer from Obre\u017e and daughter of Stanojka and Obren Stevanovi\u0107, farmers from Belu\u0161i\u0107. In church records of the deceased it is stated that Miladin Pe\u0161i\u0107, a potter from Jagodina, died on February 22, 1944, \u201cof old age,\u201d though he was only 63. However, data on his age from church records do not agree because according to the marriage register he was born in 1883 while according to the death register his birth was earlier, in 1881.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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By: Branislav Cvetkovi\u0107, museum advisor Curses, witchcraft, spell casting, and fortune telling are ancient forms of superstition that has always been present across the planet and in all world cultures and religions. It is found both in Old Testament (God curses snake) and in New…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[462],"class_list":["post-19648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-branislav-cvetkovic-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jagodina.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jagodina.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jagodina.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jagodina.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jagodina.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jagodina.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jagodina.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jagodina.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jagodina.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jagodina.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}