![]() ![]() Sprinkle salt on the floor just inside your front door – SICILY Randy old Faunus was obviously immune to it. Why? The Romans thought that getting the droops was a sure sign of an evil eye curse. This gesture dates from ancient Roman times and the horns represent the horns of Faunus, Roman god of promiscuous sex. Here he is demonstrating it in stereo during a TV interview. Make the Sign of the Horns – ITALYĬalled fare le corna in Italian, this gesture is something ex-president Silvio Berlusconi does rather obsessively. I’ve written a book about the entertaining history of the evil eye, and intriguing present-day methods people around the world use to diagnose it and ward it off. Lots of foreign things that other tourists fail to notice will suddenly come together and make sense to you. If you enjoy travelling to learn about foreign cultures, I guarantee you will never see the world in the same way again. Perhaps it’s just because, once you know about it, you see it everywhere. It may be because one of my friends here in Sicily is a fattuchiera. This may be because somebody once cast the evil eye on me in Istanbul. Some of you already know that the evil eye has long fascinated me. In many parts of the world, the typical symptoms are illness, death, infertility or marital discord. The evil eye means the glance of an envious person, so jealous of what you’ve got they can actually harm you. Have you got an illness the doctor cannot diagnose or cure? For some Sicilians, that would warrant a trip to a fattuchiere (shaman) to shoo the evil eye out of you. Does your car or office equipment perplexingly need endless costly repairs? That would get an Indian sure the evil eye is at work. Do you have a son who used to be a lovely little child, but suddenly turned into a vile, stroppy teenager? In Brazil, that would get you worried that someone has cast the evil eye on him. ![]()
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