Once they undressed, he would paint them with water, and diagnose them as suffering from curses or black magic.
Tsiolkas is working class and gay; his parents are Greek immigrants; his aunts are illiterate and mum doesn't speak much English – though he says that his father had great storytelling abilities, and was steeped in European folklore, a believer in vampires, curses and the evil eye.
Superstitions and curses are so frequently invoked that when I proposed earlier this season that NY was in a good position to win the Shield, I was shushed by people complaining I had just jinxed the team.
When the same river, at this point called the Padma, reaches the coast, it is often so feeble that the sea intrudes, poisoning the land with salt.The same problem curses the delta of the Indus in Pakistan.
In the same episode a frustrated new driver curses repeatedly at a Lamborghini in the next lane and screams, "Are you bullying me because I don't know any traffic cops?" In the next scene he is in a neck brace and his nose is broken.Mr Zhu says what makes him a diaosi is that he is the son of factory workers.
Though they are at different stages of development, these countries all suffer disproportionately from employment's main curses: low growth, clogged labour markets and a mismatch between education and work.Low growth is the most obvious of the three.
But Ms Pessl swiftly veers from the standard whodunnit to deliver a more inventive, reality-warping tale about family curses, black magic and the manipulative influence of film.
And it was unclear how he thought the NHS should meet his spending challenge without restricting or delaying services.Sir David's own CV reflects one of the lingering curses of NHS management.
FOR decades vocational education has suffered from the twin curses of low status and limited innovation.
Mr Aquino set out to save the country from its twin curses of corruption and poverty.
Their continuing battle of wits, marked by frequent curses and the odd shouting match, has long been a feature of urban guerrilla warfare.
