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The Evil Eye: Chapter X. The Cimaruta, Sirene, Tablets

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AMONG those who have written upon Neapolitan superstitions, one only is known to the writer who has even alluded to the most curious of all the many charms worn there against the evil eye. Mr. Neville Rolfe, in Naples in 1888, gives a description of this remarkable amulet, to the infants of Naples just as common to-day as the "coral and bells" were until recently among ourselves.

The Evil Eye: Chapter X. The Cimaruta, Sirene, Tablets

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