We own a cursed spoon…

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DH thinks I’m insane, obviously. But 12 years ago we moved into our first flat and there was one item, ONE ITEM, remaining in it when we moved in: a child’s metal spoon with a picture of a staring teddy bear on it and the name ‘Michael’. At first we found it quite charming, calling it The Michael Spoon, and we brought it with us each time we moved house after that.

It took us a stupidly long time to realise that that had been when we started to experience tragedy after tragedy. We’ve had several deaths in the family, some really horrible, and such a lot of bad luck that people freely comment on it.

I don’t think I really believe in cursed things but this spoon now gives me the creeps to such an extent that I’m desperate for it to be gone. The trouble is, if we just chuck it in the sea or something, might the curse stay with us as the last people who had it, and then we couldn’t find it to change that? I’ve Googled curse removal but there are too many different options and apparently it can make the curse worse! Any suggestions? Please help!

I have a few people that I would like to give the curs ed spoon to. We could do an experiment by sending it round the country to all the people we hate and see if a trail of destruction follows it ?

Actually, I grew up in a devoutly Catholic household in a devoutly Catholic society, was educated religiously from three through to eighteen at convent schools where religious education was taken very seriously. I am, as a result, pretty well-versed in the Bible, Biblical history, Christian catechetics and apologetics, etc. My uncle is a bishop, and there are quite a few priests and nuns in the wider family. You get that the fact that people believe in and study these things doesn’t make them anything than an understandably human narrative to expiate the fear of death, explain suffering and impose some form of order on the universe, right?

That’s a nice idea. Like a chain letter, only evil spoon-shaped.