jettatura

• The jettatura is a spell of evil cast either voluntarily or involuntarily by persons who have the gift of the evil eye and can cast evil spells, perhaps unconsciously and involuntarily. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• The fear of the evil eye and the jettatura is now very strong in southern Italy. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• As lepers, they were reputed to be descendants of the cursed Gehazi; as Egyptians, they were ascribed the jettatura or evil eye; as Saracens, they were held unclean and descended from infidels; and as Jews, their enforced pursuit of the carpenter's trade was considered as proving that their ancestors were the builders of the Cross Few of the race are to be found in these happier days; the old laws were softened during the first quarter of the eighteenth century, and the Revolution did away with them altogether. —  A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees
• It is of no avail that he is amiable and good in all his intentions,--his jettatura is without and beyond his will,--nay, worse, is contrary to it; for all jettatura goes like dreams, by contraries. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860
• By the bye, all this is very like a jettatura What Montevarchi coming to his end on the very day he had won the suit. —  Sant' Ilario

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