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* Some fundamentalist Christians seem to feel this way about practically any form of entertainment that is not perceived to be biblical ([[The New Rock and Roll|rock music]] and ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' are particularly popular targets). [[The Moral Substitute]] may or may not be allowed.
* A common joke in Hollywood is that [[Academy Award| the Oscar statuette is cursed]], and that winning it means the recipient's career is likely to go downhill. This would be funny if not for the fact that this happens to a ''lot'' of Oscar winners. To give two examples in recent history, [[Nicholas Cage]] has starred in a lot of garbage since winning Best Actor for ''[[Leaving Las Vegas]]''; [[Geena Davis]] won Best Supporting Actress for ''[[The Accidental Tourist]]'', but would later be known for ''[[Cutthroat Island]]'', one of the biggest [[Box Office Bomb]]s of all time.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busby%27s_stoop_chair Bubsey's Chair]. Supposedly, this wooden chair that once occupied an inn near Thirsk was used by a murderer named Thomas Busby and cursed before he was caught and hanged; this was mostly debunked, as a furniture expert examined it and found that it had been constructed using machine-turned spindles, which were not used until the 19th Century, long after Busby was hanged. Nonetheless, many deaths were supposedly attributed to the chair; in World War II, many soldiers who sat in it while on leave never returned from later missions, and at least three fatal accidents occured where the victim had recently used it. The inn's owner eventually donated it to a museum, where it is, to this day, displayed suspended from the ceiling to discourage anyone from tempting Fate.
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