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So, too, in Corsica, the peasants are strict believers in the jettatura of praise, which they call l'annocchiatura, supposing, that, if any evil influence attend you, your good wishes will turn into curses.
On sait que les puissances mysterieuses qui president a l'annocchiatura ont la mauvaise habitude d'executer le contraire de nos souhaits." Perhaps our familiar habit of calling our children "scamp" and "rascal," when we are caressing them, may be founded on a worn-out superstition of the same kind.
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