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Human Wrongs Watch By Donatella Polizzi*

It is not true, but I believe it!

14 November 2019 (Wall Street International)*“Ciao, how are you?” “So so, we keep going” is the answer. An Italian will never say “I am fine” or “Things are fantastic”. In Italy, people tend to be afraid of causing jealousy and envy so understate all success. According to a widespread belief, envy is at the base of “malocchio”, the evil eye, from the combination of “mal”, bad, and “occhio”, eye. The evil eye is a form of curse, transmitted through the gaze, hence the name, many cultures believe causes injury or bad luck to the person it is directed.

Superstition | Image from Wall Street International Magazine.

The origin of the evil eye can be traced back at least five thousand years ago in the region of Sumer in Mesopotamia, then in Babylon and the Persian Gulf (1400 BC), and in the Egyptian culture of the 20thdynasty in 1200 BC.

Chaldees and Assyrians believed in the evil eye and in their monuments are engraved several “scongiuri” (It is interesting to notice the Italian word, “scongiuro”, which means the ritual to ward off the evil eye and other spells, does not seem to exist in English.

In the dictionary we find exorcism, touching wood, miracle, sign, but none of these words is correct. Scongiuro is a gesture, a word, a ritual to summon supernatural powers to send away an evil force).

*Donatella Polizzi
Donatella Polizzi is a writer and an art photographer who has been spending her life in Italy and California. She has published several photography books and a novel, working professionally as a journalist.
Her photographs have been exhibited in several shows and are in public and private collections and museums. She is a business woman in the field of jewelry and real estate. An avid reader, she is a world traveler, passionate about people and different cultures.


Source: https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2019/11/15/malocchio/


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