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Countering Malocchio
Anti-Malocchio Formula
From Nick - 30 Aug 1996:
Malocchje ngenzate
Tre Sande m'aiutate
Che poss' i nt' a l'occhje
A cchi 'e fatte u malocchje a (Afflicted's Name)
P.S. You must use this power only for good...never for evil!
Wards in Ancient Italy
From Jo Tedesco - 9 & 17 May 1996 (Reggio Calabria):
"In the Fountana Buona in Genova Province every home has at least one carved…
Malocchio & Jettatore
Malocchio
From Dominick A. Faust, 29 Dec 1995 (Reggio di Calabria & Siracusa):
I have a question about superstitions. I've watched the movie the "A Bronx Tale" several times. I have noticed that "C" the young character and "Sonny" the "Don" for lack of another descriptive word, exchanged a sign of friendship with a hand gesture. When I was young, my father had told me the same hand gesture was for wishing evil on someone. Or he called it "horns". !???!
From Margie Vaughan, 29 Dec…
Befana
From Steve Saviello - 8 Dec 1996:
La Befana
In a little village high atop a hill, in Via della Padella number 2 to be precise, an old lady, part fairy part witch, passes the entire year in company with her grotesque assistants (the Befanucci) preparing coal, making sweets and toys and darning old stockings and socks. These are all to be distributed to children on Rome's magical night of nights, between the 5th and 6th of January. This seems the longest night of all. Every child is in awe of 'La Befana'…
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