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* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: The death curse, the ultimate punishment among the Clan. Those so cursed ''believe'' they are dead (as does everyone else), and generally just lie down and die. If they didn't pine to death the co-dependent gender-based memories will get them. E.g. Men can hunt but don't know how to butcher and preserve their kills, and literally can't learn to gather edible plants or cook. Women could gather vegetation but their only defense is running with zero tracking skills to avoid danger, and they're totally unable to learn to hunt. <ref>[[Truth in Television]]: A number of real cultures have death curses, wherein the entire tribe treats a member as dead, and eventually they give up and die. Anthropologists call this "voodoo death." Similarly, the kurdaitcha or bone-pointing curse found in some Aboriginal Australian groups is thought to cause death because the people cursed by it believe it will kill them, and then waste away slowly due to the nocebo effect.</ref>

 

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