jettatore

Most often a jettatore is a tall, thin man, with pale, shy eyes and a long nose, which overhangs and hacks his upper lip.

The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

This jettatore was a little fellow with a nose like a San Michele.

The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

The belief in the horn as a powerful amulet, especially prevalent in Italy, where is it the custom of the common people to make the sign of the mano cornuto to avoid the consequence of the dreaded jettatore or evil eye, can be traced to the fact that the horn was the symbol of the Goddess of the Moon.

Bygone Beliefs 1969

The King had his good reasons for refusing, for Don Ojori was well known to be the greatest _jettatore_ in Naples.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

Read Dumas 'description, and see if you should have recognized the Pope as a _jettatore_.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

It is a misfortune worse than death to be considered a jettatore, but you need not yourself believe it. '

The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

Do you see, people say that no one can have power over a jettatore who is not as great in evil as he.

The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

"Is it no longer raining?" said the jettatore, in an uncertain voice.

The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

"Is it not he who is as great in evil as the jettatore who has power over him?" answered the father, bitterly.

The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

IN Catania there was once a man with "the evil eye," a jettatore.

The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915