# Help...My Wife Put a Curse On Me **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 26, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260 "2003-04-26T03:52:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LanceUSMC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@LanceUSMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LanceUSMC)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/1 "2003-04-26T03:52:32Z")
I just found out my wife (soon to be ex) sent money to Mexico to a witch doctor to put a curse on me. Can I use this in the divorce proceedings? If so, how can it help me? ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/2 "2003-04-26T04:00:02Z")
I don’t know if it can help you in the divorce proceedings, but it _will_ help you get on Springer. ---
**Author:** ![FranticMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/3 "2003-04-26T04:07:41Z")
Welcome to the club. ---
**Author:** ![cgrayce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@cgrayce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cgrayce)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/4 "2003-04-26T04:16:54Z")
It can help you if it helps kill the emotional attachment you have to the marriage, and to the woman. The sooner you can regard the marriage unemotionally, as just a business deal gone bad, the better you will do in the divorce. If you have issues to contest (custody, support) then any emotional attachment will make you much easier to manipulate. If you’re a jarhead, as your login suggests, it’s probably similar to the cool focus on the job to be done which you need to survive in combat. ---
**Author:** ![LanceUSMC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/0ea827/32.png) [@LanceUSMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LanceUSMC)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/5 "2003-04-26T04:21:28Z")
I MEAN…she really put a curse on me. I found her e-mails to an old friend of hers from here who is a real witch doctor and is about to do some curse on me. I am not saying ‘she put a curse on me’ as she hurts me. I want the damn divorce, and this only helps! If only it was the good kind of witch…has to be the damn wicked one. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/6 "2003-04-26T04:43:04Z")
Bigger, clearer much more disturbing pic of the duck…umm… well you know. [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v413/n6852/fig\_tab/413128a0\_F1.html](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v413/n6852/fig_tab/413128a0_F1.html) ---
**Author:** ![FranticMad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c68b51/32.png) [@FranticMad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FranticMad)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/7 "2003-04-26T04:50:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LanceUSMC \* > **I MEAN…she really put a curse on me.** Um, I think you just need a lawyer. I really doubt that this “curse” thing will help you get what you want. She’s nuts; are you sure you want to play in her ballpark? ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/8 "2003-04-26T04:56:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > \*\*Bigger, clearer much more disturbing pic of the duck…umm… well you know. > > [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v413/n6852/fig\_tab/413128a0\_F1.html](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v413/n6852/fig_tab/413128a0_F1.html) \*\* Boy, of all the threads you could’ve misposted that to… Sorry about your difficulties, **Lance**. No advice, but I wish you the best. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Joe\_Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Random)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/9 "2003-04-26T05:51:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LanceUSMC \* > **a real witch doctor** Isn’t that some type of oxymoron? ---
**Author:** ![LadyMack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4491bb/32.png) [@LadyMack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadyMack)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/10 "2003-04-26T06:03:53Z")
An Ex’s Ex (stay with me, here), took some of his clothes to some kind of ‘church’, she said…and had a combination Prayer/Spell thingie done. It must have worked. Ten very long years later, I sent him back to her, with my blessing. She still has him. Thank God. ---
**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/11 "2003-04-26T06:25:01Z")
dunno about it helping your divorce, but it will help you meet Jerry Springer. ---
**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/12 "2003-04-26T06:28:26Z")
oh dang. **LolaCocaCola** beat me to it. “humorous” remarks aside, hope things work out, **LanceUSMC**. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/13 "2003-04-26T06:35:06Z")
All wives put a curse on their husbands. It’s called “monogamy.” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/14 "2003-04-26T10:39:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Evil Captor \* > \*\*All wives put a curse on their husbands. It’s called “monogamy.” \*\* Monogamy… isn’t that the stuff they used to build desks out of? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/15 "2003-04-26T12:52:17Z")
Here ya go, a way to get your [revenge.](http://www.pinstruck.com/) ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/16 "2003-04-26T13:12:14Z")
It surely is evidence that your soon-to-ex does foolish things with money. If you continue to take it seriously, and it worries you, I offer you a service. Just send me an equal or larger amount of money, and I’ll be happy to send a steady stream of bent energy to your damn fool wife, at least until the divorce. I’ll even think kindly of you while I spend the money. Such a deal! Oo ee oo ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang! ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/17 "2003-04-26T13:26:30Z")
Print out the e-mails. File them, give a copy of them them to any lawyer you may get. ---
**Author:** ![mipiace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@mipiace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mipiace)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/18 "2003-04-26T15:11:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by racer72 \* > \*\*Here ya go, a way to get your [revenge.](http://www.pinstruck.com/) \*\* Eww! Are those real teeth? YIKES! Put a chicken foot under her pillow and tell her you’ve set up your own curse to send back any bad vibe she sends your way. If she’s really that superstitious it will freak her out. And yeah, take it to a lawyer. If you have kids, this could help your custody situation a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Crystal\_Task](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Crystal\_Task](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crystal_Task)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/19 "2003-04-26T19:01:40Z")
yea, people might think she’s crazy. ---
**Author:** ![doug\_mclure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@doug\_mclure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doug_mclure)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260/20 "2003-04-26T19:15:21Z")
How does a duck use a thing like that??? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-wife-put-a-curse-on-me/171260.md?page=2)