british customs sat on an actual Babylonian curse stone at Heathrow for SEVEN YEARS

This one's documented, not folklore, that's why it freaks me out. There's a kudurru, a boundary stone, from Nippur in central Iraq. King Nebuchadnezzar I (the first one, ~1100 BC, not the famous Bible one) gifts land to some loyal subject and carves it in stone with the gods Enlil and Marduk on it. ……