You don't need to see something or someone to put a curse on it.
"But I suppose she'd be more likely to put a curse on them."
He sometimes wondered if Eleanor had put a curse on him.
He has put a curse upon us because we kept the white man prisoner.
I will put a curse on you and your house.
"Did you really put a curse on the Rangers for that?"
We don't believe in an evil god that could be persuaded to put a curse on somebody.
Didn't the Father say he'd put a special curse on him?
And that's after she's supposed to have put a curse on him!
But before the Queen departed, she put a curse on him also.