Curses Places

Certain landmarks or locales are said to be cursed. Various lakes, rivers and mountains have been called cursed, as has the Sargasso Sea. However even when there is a tradition of a place “taking someone” every number of years it is not always considered cursed. For example, someone is said to drown in Lough Gur in Limerick, Ireland every seven years but the lake is not considered “cursed” by the locals. The alleged Bermuda Triangle effect is believed by some to be some form of curse (and by others to be some unexplained natural phenomena).

Babinda’s Boulders, Babinda township, near Cairns, Queensland on Australia’s mid-north coast, is a place known for the Devil’s Pool, a group of waterholes known to be dangerous to young male travellers, but never claiming the lives of locals or females. There is some dispute about the dangers, that the geography of the place is naturally risky with the rocks and fast moving currents &em; yet an Aboriginal legend exists giving it the context of a historic curse.

Babinda Creek, near The Boulders at Babinda, Queensland (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Lough Gur, an early Irish farming settlement (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Babinda, taken on a rainy day. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)