{"id":12998,"date":"2016-03-07T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/?p=12998"},"modified":"2016-03-06T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T19:49:00","slug":"the-book-on-the-nightstand-atlas-of-cursed-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.theeatculture.com\/en\/the-book-on-the-nightstand-atlas-of-cursed-places\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BOOK ON THE NIGHTSTAND: ATLAS OF CURSED PLACES"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Cursed is the ground because of you!”
\nIn the opening pages of the Bible (Genesis 3,17), God adresses to Adam who, because of his disobedience, will be expelled together with Eve from the Garden of Eden to survive in a barren land; with pain and sweat he\u2019ll work there and there he\u2019ll come back, where his life originated.<\/p>\n

Since that time thousands of years have passed and the land itself has become the home of “humanity that has found the most effective ways to curse herself.” Works of all sorts have been invented, and the plowing and pastoralism aren\u2019t to be counted among the most ungrateful.<\/p>\n

But as we know the curse of a land it doesn\u2019t always have to do with the work of man. In the collective unconscious, it recalls words like “superstition”, “mystical”, “darkness” and … “death”: the places defined as cursed have always had a certain appeal because silence and mystery surrounding them or climatic conditions adverse who live there – almost to the limit of the supernatural – attract and repel with the same intensity.<\/p>\n

A village suspended on the rock,
\nan area overrun by bats,
\na poisoned lagoon,
\nunderground mines,
\na suicide forest,
\na diabolical colonial house<\/p>\n

are just some of the places that you can find in Atlas of cursed places, written by the journalist and author Olivier Le Carrer. And remember: “The charm of the unknown dominates everything.”<\/p>\n

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Time of reading:\u00a0<\/strong>a<\/em> couple<\/em> of<\/em> weeks<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Atlante<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Atlante<\/a><\/p>\n

Photography: Sara Cartelli.<\/em>
\n\u00a9 The Eat Culture.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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