Defixiones which means to BIND or to CURSE and thus these are also known as the curse tablets. Usually made in lead with high tin content. The material is batted and flattened in rectangular sheet. The use of tin is more as it enables the sheet to be written on. It makes the surface soft and a stylus kind of thing is used to write on the sheet. After the curse or the prayer or the matter is written on to it, it is folded in such a way that the written surface is inside and then either it is kept in this state or is nailed to the coffin of the dead. Horrifying.. what has the dead to do with the tablets? This was a tradition practiced in the ancient Greco-Roman civilization as a part of some magic to bind, curse, destroy, pray for any person, business, place, love, emotion and almost everything. These tablets were found buried in the graves or nailed to the coffin or also sometimes found hanging from the old temple walls. The temple wall tablets where usually prayers for someone to