A large proportion of treasure legends seem to involve a “curse” and it seems like it would happen in the most straightforward way possible
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Namely, the legend draws seekers into the wilderness, whose dangers are hard for novices to see
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“Curse” seems to be a magical worldview way of dealing with statistical evidence of hidden danger https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenn_treasure#Deaths …
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But this is not to say there’s nothing aesthetic or spiritual or otherwise meaningful about curse legends aside from mere warning functions
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this is so fucking cool, he literally invented a dangerous challenge for people to do and people did it and actually died wow
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