blessing and cursing

Joseph, the thirteenth of his parent's thirteen children, receives warning from two mysterious strangers before his thirteenth birthday to be wary and is encouraged to embark on a quest to collect thirteen thirteens before midnight on his thirteenth birthday in order to avoid a terrible curse.

Discusses some of the disasters encountered by people who were present or who visited the tomb of ancient Egyptian pharoah King Tutankhamun after it was discovered by archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922, and considers the possiblity that the tomb was cursed.

After finding buried treasure guarded by giant sand crabs, the crew of the Sea Rat comes down with a mysterious illness, leading the pirate students to believe that the treasure is cursed.

Nonnie and her Uncle Paul help her new friends get rid of the evil cat which came along with their ancient family curse.

Presents an abridged and adapted version of the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne tale of the misfortunes that plague a prominent New England family because of greed and a two-hundred year-old curse.

Inexplicable things have been happening to Manhattan socialite Mary since she awoke on her seventeenth birthday, and by the end of the day she has been killed, inhabited the bodies of seven people close to her, and faced some ugly truths about herself.

Twenty-five-year-old Penelope's life would be near-perfect had she not been cursed with the face of a pig, and so while her mother struggles to find a blue-blooded bachelor to break the curse and a tabloid reporter plots to expose her secret, Penelope gets fed up and leaves home, in disguise, to find her own happiness.

Chronicles the discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922, surveys early Egyptian life and culture, and examines the unusual number of deaths following the opening of the tomb.

When fairies steal her brother, thirteen-year-old Rowan Fox promises that in exchange for his return she will find the thirteen charms that the fairies have enchanted and hidden in the human world.

Sixteen-year-old Rapunzel, abandoned by her mother and raised by the sorceress Melisande, agrees to help free Melisande's daughter, Rue--whom Rapunzel did not know existed--from a wizard's curse, but bitter feelings rise between the girls and threaten to leave Rue cursed forever.