unfortunately it seems jezebel completely took down the article in question, though before they did they made a couple statements
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In ancient Rome cursing someone was punishable by death.
Which never stopped anyone, archeologists found a metric fuckton of lead sheets with curses everywhere
at some point i've gotta think a lot of it is venting without any real expectation that anything will happen
like posting "octavius is such a shit bag, i hope his cock turns green and falls off" on their tumblr or something
Yeah we don't exactly have any records of their trials so we can't say how really common were the trials for witchcraft. The few we do have knowledge of concern the upper class and seems to have more political reason than magical. People did believed in those magic though.