Sentence examples for bring misfortune on from inspiring English sources

Female performance of throat-singing was thought to cause infertility or to bring misfortune on the performers' menfolk for seven generations.

But Lester has already missed time in the spring with arm fatigue (terrible, random misfortune!) while Epstein decided to send top prospect Kris Bryant to the minors, thereby giving the Opening Day third base job to the decidedly dreadful Mike Olt (bringing misfortune on themselves!) In conclusion, this is the Cubs.

We take a look at this and nine other well-known superstitions thought to bring misfortune to the masses.

In Torn, the player assumed the role of a wanderer, who was cursed to bring misfortune to people and places around it.

Women who have sex outside of marriage, whether voluntarily or by force, were perceived to bring misfortune to the household.

These divine generals were used to fight wandering demons that could bring misfortune or illness on someone.

Storks were seen by the Slavs as bringing luck, and killing one would bring misfortune.

Conversely, "four" sounds quite like "death", and so is believed to bring misfortune.

And/or the Cubs could do stupid Cubs things to bring misfortune upon themselves.

Most of all they fear that disregarding Chinese culture, which holds that the living should not settle by the dead, will bring misfortune.

On his arrival at Psophis in Arcadia, he was purified by its king, Phegeus, whose daughter Arsinoë (or Alphesiboea) he married, making her a present of the fatal necklace and the robe of Harmonia, which brought misfortune to all who possessed them.