1.   The Red Sox are playing the Yankees for the right to take their curse to a higher level, and perhaps lose a World Series to the Mets.

2.   They somehow take the curse off high heels, making them feel not so high.

3.   This might take the curse off the stickiness, although it is plastic and it too might get sticky.

4.   Through his death on the cross, Jesus took this curse of physical suffering upon himself in order to save his people.

5.   Trying to take the curse off its loss-blighted soccer team, Ivory Coast is turning to witch doctors.