Substack has an insightful and lively illustrated post from Gillian Kenny about the long and colourful tradition of cursing in Ireland. Although just an introduction to five different styles of cursing by churchmen, nobles, poets and ordinary folk it is clearly based on academic research, and has a useful looking bibliography. It is also interesting in the way it shows how some at least of these customs persisted into the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It can be read at Five Ways to Curse Your Enemies
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