He supports himself on one arm as his strength ebbs away. The moustache, matted hair and twisted collar identify the warrior as a barbarian. It must have been a startling innovation at the time of its creation. "THE DYING GAUL: Fourth and fifth century Greek sculpting had never depicted such a subject. ROME(written upside down) is our hex against all that in hope that the dying Gaul may recover yet." Ancient Rome broke wild Europe leaving in its wake bureaucracy, treason, and science. Much more insidious than a direct attack, its goal is to build paranoia and to terrorize. The magic employed is more psychological than supernatural. "In Robert Graves' I, Claudius there is a section where someone hires a witch to hex Germanicus. Then appeared the name Germanicus, upside down, every day shortened by a letter." Cocks' feathers smeared in blood were found among the cushions and unlucky signs were scrawled on the wall in charcoal, sometimes low down as if a dwarf had written them, sometimes high up as if written by a giant- a man hanging, the word Rome written upside down. "Soon after this hauntings began in the house.
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