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Thrice Cursed

Folklore
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A curse repeated three times to amplify its power, often invoking the trinity of earth, sky, and underworld, or past, present, future.

Detailed Definition
Thrice Cursed in poetry embodies the weight of repetition as ritual. It appears in mythic and incantatory verse as the magic of threefold law—where words, once spoken thrice, become unbreakable, and fate is not foretold, but forged.
Example
Example in poetry:
Thrice Cursed; A folk incantation: “Thrice cursed she was—by priest, by moon, by mother’s last breath—yet still she laughed, for curses are just love turned inside out”;
Additional Notes
Thrice Cursed is a curse repeated three times to amplify its power, invoking the trinity of earth, sky, and underworld—or past, present, future. In folklore, threefold curses are unbreakable. In poetry, they represent inevitability, repetition compulsion, and the weight of ancestral sin. Poets use them to frame inescapable fates, cyclical trauma, and the haunting of lineage.
Also Known As
Thrice Damned Triple Curse
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