Veracity of the Scotish Curse
January 05, 2013 | 07:16 PM

I do the lights for my high school's theater, and the only superstition that my teachers believe is this one. You may not have come across people who actually believe in it, but that doesn't necessarily mean that nobody really believes in it. Also, most people don't believe that the witches in the play curse it with their lines. The most popular beliefs involve either the play making real witches mad, thus them cursing the play, or an actor from the original production getting mad at Shakespeare about the casting, not paying attention with the many fight scenes, and dying during production, leaving his ghost to haunt the play for the rest of time. Either way, most people have decided to not say the name at all even if they don't believe in the curse so as not to offend those who do.

Chris Brooks