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Wikipedia on Twitter: "@CmdrCyb3r4ndr4s In Italian culture, malocchio (evil eye) amulets were designed to protect against the influence of the evil eye itself. Public figures of every type, from poets to gangsters,
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TIL the "horned sign" is an ancient hand gesture meant to either ward off, or curse someone with, the "evil eye", or malocchio in Italian. Ronnie James Dio re-popularized the gesture as
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