Defixiones... The Curse Tablet

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 overcome some trouble and to be guided but the one which were found in the graves usually had the spells to call on the lower GODS or the spirits to bind or throw a curse on someone or something.
One of the tablets which was found in London and currently kept in the London Museum read "I curse Tretia Maria and her life and mind and memory and liver and lungs mixed up together, and her words, thoughts and memory; thus may she be unable to speak what things are concealed, nor be able". Thus it can be seen that these tablets where used to make some sick to an extend that they die.
The question which comes up here is do these things WORK? As the result of these tablets are hard to find but thinking back it takes us in a journey of the history where the jealous and belief system was much more stronger that it is today.
Think over and share your thoughts.

Let there be LIGHT!!!