Jettatore
A jettatore (pronounced: iettatore ) is, according to Neapolitan and Sicilian folk beliefs, a person, usually a man, who brings bad luck without necessarily being angry himself . He is said to have the Evil Eye and the curse of the Jettatura (the gift itself). If a person gets the reputation of a jettatore, he becomes increasingly isolated, loses friends and contacts, often the entire social environment.
According to popular belief, Jettatori and Jettatrici always come from the bourgeois class, they are intellectuals, lawyers, doctors, etc. In their worldview they supposedly combine enlightenment with superstition . The appearance of the supposed bad luck charms is often a long, lanky build, with pale, shy eyes and a long nose.
Hard, pointed, straight objects such as nails, corals, the outstretched middle finger, the mano cornuta , the phallus are useful against the ominous power of the Jettatori . It is said that the famous communist party leader Palmiro Togliatti always carried a few iron nails in his pocket. Many residents also carry the Red Horn (it: Corno) with them to be protected from the Jettatura.
Effects
- The Italian singer Marco Masini was also referred to as Jettatore in 2001 and reacted extremely depressed.
- The singer Dalida had this dubious reputation towards the end.
- Pope Pius IX was like his successor Leo XIII. as jettatore, as many cardinals died during their tenure.
- The VW Group simply renamed its product VW Jetta in Italy to Golf because the name was identical to Jettatore .
- In her book The Miracles of the Antichrist , Selma Lagerlöf describes, among other things, how a statue of Christ from a Jettatore receives the Evil Eye.
literature
- Nicola Valleta (1748-1814) "Cicalata sul fascino volgarmente detto jettatura"
- Sergio Benvenuto, * 1948 in Naples , various books and texts
- Walker, Barbara G .: The secret knowledge of women. A lexicon. Original: The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, HarperCollins Publisher, New York / USA, 1983. Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt, 1993. ISBN 3-86150-006-X
Web links
- Information about the Evil Eye and the Jettatore
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evil Eye . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 3, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 245–246.
- ^ Speech by Leon Wurmser during the Lindau Psychiatry Weeks 2004 (pdf)
- ↑ http://www.taz.de/pt/2007/01/16/a0163.1/text Text from the taz
- ↑ http://www.sungaya.de/schwarz/allmende/boesblick.htm ( Memento from August 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. English
