

It is the negative emotions that humanity directed at this image that causes it to manifest as a curse. An image of fear shared by the masses can create a powerful curse even if the subject is not real, such as famous monsters or ghosts. This same concept applies humanity's collective fear and hatred. Populated locations such as schools and hospitals are hot spots for bearing curses because many negative emotions are associated with memories of those places. Negative emotions flowing out of humans collecting in one place to form a curse. Cursed energy builds up like sediment until a cursed spirit takes form. This includes Sukuna's reincarnation as well as the unregistered appearance of over four new special grade cursed spirits in Mahito's group.Ĭurses are created when cursed energy leaks from humans as a result of their human emotion.

Starting in 2017, the year the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons occurred, curse-related events have begun to happen more frequently while presenting more danger than ever before.

Jujutsu sorcerers act in secret to repel the threat of curses. Their existence has been kept secret from non-sorcerers, as they are invisible to them. These statistics are a direct result of the influence curses have on normal society. In the modern-day, the number of unexplained deaths and disappearances in Japan exceeds ten thousand annually. His influence has lived on to greatly affect the current age. During the Heian Era, the height of jujutsu, Ryomen Sukuna was recognized as the undisputed King of Curses. However, it can be surmised that because cursed energy comes from negative emotion, curses have always existed alongside humanity. The origin of curses and jujutsu is largely unknown.
