When Elyse Bernath was 4 years old, she almost died. Her near-death experience was the result of a severe case of the flu, she said. But after Bernath recovered, she said things felt different. By the ...

In the fourth century BC, an unknown – but clearly disgruntled – schemer from the Greek city of Antioch had a curse tablet made. Inscribed on a thin piece of lead and deposited in a well, the tablet ...