168711 20260217214838.0 doi 10.1558/jch.24365 sideral 136972 ART-2023-136972 eng Sánchez Natalías, Celia Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-8420-3504 Fearing the Gods? 2023 After some introductory remarks on current approaches to curse tablets, this article focuses on the defixiones from Britannia, analyzing the idiosyncratic features of this corpus to demonstrate how the island’s inhabitants adopted and then adapted this magico-religious technology. In particular, it examines a group of curses in which the name of the practitioner is clearly stated. This specific piece of information has been understood by previous scholarship as a reflection of the fearlessness that these practitioners (who were supposedly asking for something fair) felt towards the gods. Nevertheless, this article interprets the use of names as a reflection of the perception that these practitioners had of the god’s omniscience. Additionally, this research also takes into account the context where these artefacts were deposited and the array of rituals that took place in those spaces. Tellingly, most of the curse tablets from Britannia with this feature (i.e. the name of the practitioner) come from sanctuaries and shrines, a context that could have promoted different ways for practitioners to conceive of the cursing ritual and the types of relationship that it created between the author of the curse and the invoked deity. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MCIU/RTI2018-098339-J-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 3000 445 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Ciencias de la Antigüed. Área Historia Antigua 8, 1-2 (2023), 94-114 Journal of Cognitive Historiography 2051-9672 288208 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/168711/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 1466908 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/168711/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:168711 articulos driver 2026-02-17-20:13:59 ARTICLE