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Saturday, July 10, 2004

Amulets

This witch was very busy in her Kitchen yesterday. I just finished posting three more articles on amulets used in Italian folk magic.

Related to the corno is the mano cornuta or "horned hand." This is an Italian hand-gesture (or an amulet imitative of the gesture) that can be used to indicate that a man has been cuckholded ("wears the horns") and also to ward off the evil eye. Mano means "hand" and corno means "horn."

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