Brigadoon

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by jeff_wilson

Yes, this is also the case when it is handled as a curse from Hephaestus in an episode of HERCULES the legendary journeys. 50 year later, the current priest of Heph goes to he village to see if they are ready to be good and pious again. The villagers are skeptical, because a completely different man had given them the same speech just that morning. The priest fruitlessly explains to them that was his father and they had been cursed for 50 years.....really, this has to be one of the lamest curses and/or blessings ever.

It would have to take a couple square miles of farmland too wouldn't it? Or else they would eventually starve as everything turns wild or is swept up by neighboring villages.