. Castle St. Angelo ; and, The evil eye : being additional chapters to "Roba di Roma". er a long audience left his bookand many prayers for the kings prosperity. But Ferdinanddid not survive the interview a whole day ; and if this benot proof that Don Ojori bewitched him to his destruction,what is ? While these pages are going through the press, a concerttook place at the Sala Dante, in Rome, on the 20th ofDecember, 1876, during which one of the main gas-pipesburst. The room was crowded, and the audience were fora time in great alarm and agitation, though fortunately noone was injured. The Lib
. Castle St. Angelo ; and, The evil eye : being additional chapters to "Roba di Roma". er a long audience left his bookand many prayers for the kings prosperity. But Ferdinanddid not survive the interview a whole day ; and if this benot proof that Don Ojori bewitched him to his destruction,what is ? While these pages are going through the press, a concerttook place at the Sala Dante, in Rome, on the 20th ofDecember, 1876, during which one of the main gas-pipesburst. The room was crowded, and the audience were fora time in great alarm and agitation, though fortunately noone was injured. The Libertà on the subsequent day,after giving an account of this incident, thus concludes :—A friend coming out of the Sala Dante, explained the un-fortunate scene which had just taken place, attributing it tothe presence in the hall of certain individuals well knownnsjettatori. Who knows that our friend is not right ? Italymay have freed herself from the Pope, but she is still sub-ject to the baleful influence of the jettatore, from which itwill take many generations to set her CHAPTER IV. FTER tlie testimony of so many learned men, andafter the established belief of all ages, he must,indeed, be rash, who ventures to disbelieve in theexistence of this terrible power of fascination, andit becomes therefore most important to know how it may beaverted,—by what conjurations, incantations, exorcisms,talismans, charms, and spells, its fatal shafts may be wardedoff. Fortunately these are legion in number, and a few ofthe more important shall be here given. In the first place, incantations, excantations, and conjura-tions, were considered as very potent both for good and evil,and many are the forms therefor described by the Greek andLatin poets,—too many, in fact, to be here repeated. Amongother things used in these ceremonies were milk, frankin-cense, sulphur, honey, and water ; the latter being alwaysemployed in lustration. The number three was also muchrelied upon, and the
Size: 3136px × 797px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, bookpublisherlondonchapmanandha
