Famous Fictional Curses
Famous Fictional Curses is a structured entertainment dataset with 15 entries. Its fields include Curse / Cursed Object, Franchise, Creator / Origin. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 15 rows
- Fields
- 5 columns
- Source
- Community curated
- Data updated
- Mar 7, 2026
Included fields: Curse / Cursed Object, Franchise, Creator / Origin, Curse Effect, Known For.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
No reliable range or grouping can be calculated from the loaded rows without interpreting the source data.
Useful for
- Comparing Curse / Cursed Object, Franchise, and Creator / Origin across entertainment entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 15 downloadable records
Curse / Cursed Object↕ | Franchise↕ | Creator / Origin↕ | Curse Effect↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
The One Ring | The Lord of the Rings | Sauron | Invisibility, corrupts bearer's will, extends life unnaturally | 'One Ring to rule them all', corrupts everyone who touches it, Gollum's 500-year obsession, Frodo's burden, Tolkien's metaphor for absolute power, 'My precious' |
Horcruxes | Harry Potter | Lord Voldemort | Splits soul to achieve immortality, corrupts nearby living beings | Seven fragments of Voldemort's soul hidden in objects, destroying them was the key to defeating him, the locket made Ron hostile, each required unique destruction method |
The Monkey's Paw | The Monkey's Paw (W.W. Jacobs) | Indian fakir | Grants 3 wishes with horrifying consequences | Original 'be careful what you wish for' story (1902), first wish for money is paid via son's death insurance, the unopened door ending, template for every cursed-wish story since |
Davy Jones' Locker | Pirates of the Caribbean | Calypso / Davy Jones | Bound to captain the Flying Dutchman for eternity | Jones cut out his own heart to escape the pain of love, tentacle-faced Bill Nighy performance, cursed crew fuses with the ship, Dead Man's Chest, Bootstrap Bill's barnacle transformation |
The Hope Diamond Curse | Real legend / fiction | Stolen from Hindu idol (legend) | Brings misfortune and death to all owners | 45.52-carat blue diamond, Marie Antoinette wore it before the guillotine, Louis XIV to Smithsonian, every owner allegedly suffered tragedy, curse likely fabricated by journalist in 1911 |
Jumanji Board Game | Jumanji | Unknown ancient power | Traps players in jungle until game is finished | Board game that makes jungle dangers materialize in real life, Robin Williams trapped inside for 26 years, stampedes through the living room, must finish the game to reverse everything |
The Necronomicon | Evil Dead / H.P. Lovecraft | Abdul Alhazred (the Mad Arab) | Summons Deadites and demonic forces | Bound in human skin and written in blood, reading passages aloud unleashes evil, 'Klaatu Barada Nikto', Bruce Campbell's Ash must fight what the book unleashes, Lovecraft's fictional creation become pop culture icon |
Sleeping Beauty's Spindle Curse | Sleeping Beauty / fairy tale | Maleficent / evil fairy | Prick on spindle causes eternal sleep | Classic fairy tale curse — 'before the sun sets on her 16th birthday', every spinning wheel in the kingdom destroyed, only true love's kiss breaks it, Disney's Maleficent is greatest fairy tale villain |
The Lament Configuration (Puzzle Box) | Hellraiser | Lemarchand (toymaker) | Opens gateway to Cenobite dimension of pain | Clive Barker's puzzle box summons Pinhead and the Cenobites, 'We have such sights to show you', pleasure and pain are indistinguishable, one of horror's most iconic props |
Tutankhamun's Curse | Real legend / folklore | Ancient Egyptian magic | 'Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the peace of the King' | Lord Carnarvon died weeks after opening the tomb in 1922, media frenzy created the 'mummy's curse', Howard Carter (who opened it) lived another 17 years, most famous archaeological curse |
The Cursed Videotape | The Ring / Ringu | Sadako / Samara | Watch the tape, die in 7 days | Japanese horror that terrified the world, Sadako crawling out of the TV, only escape is copying the tape and showing someone else, redefining horror for the 2000s, 'seven days...' |
Voldemort's Taboo Curse | Harry Potter | Voldemort's regime | Speaking his name reveals speaker's location | Weaponized a name — anyone brave enough to say 'Voldemort' was tracked and captured, only the resistance used his name, enforced the 'He Who Must Not Be Named' culture of fear |
The Death Note | Death Note | Shinigami (Ryuk) | Write a name, that person dies | God-like power in a notebook, Light Yagami's descent from justice to megalomania, 'I am justice', Ryuk drops it out of boredom, L vs Kira cat-and-mouse, power corrupts absolutely |
The Midas Touch | Greek mythology | Dionysus (granted as wish) | Everything touched turns to gold | Seemed like a blessing until food, drink, and his daughter turned to gold, original cautionary tale about greed, inspired the phrase 'Midas touch' meaning both blessing and curse |
The Dark Mark | Harry Potter | Voldemort | Branded on Death Eaters' forearms, burns when Voldemort summons them | Skull with serpent tongue, cast into the sky above murder scenes as a terror symbol, parallels to real-world authoritarian branded loyalty, irreversible mark of allegiance |
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