THE NEAPOLITAN CURNICIELLO ( The amulet against the evil eye) 🌶️💀🔥🦇
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Naples and the Evil Eye , the approach of the Neapolitans with superstition 
The great Eduardo ( neapolitan playwright ) used to say "To be superstitious is to be ignorant, but not to be ignorant brings bad luck." or “it’s not true but I believe it”
These sentences , more than all summarizes the approach of the Neapolitans with superstition. The Neapolitan loves to live life, is cheerful, sunny, lover of company but also has a deep respect for everything that can have a positive or negative influence on people or things.
No city in the world has so many legends, stories and rituals about superstition as Naples: from Munaciello (spirit present in houses portrayed with hump and franciscan habit with beneficial or evil behavior) to the evil eye (popular belief that people’s eyes can have negative effects)
The negative events to avoid the evil eye
1) table superstitions (do not overturn the bread, do not cross the forks in the pot, do not pass the salt in the hands of another diner, do not spill the oil on the ground)
2) Do not break a mirror (7 years of misfortunes)
3) Do not go under a ladder
4) Do not cross the road in the presence of a black cat.
5) Do not make any major decisions on friday 17th (17 is considered unlucky, and when it comes to Friday the 17th, some would even call it “un giorno nero" (a black day).
But is there a way to fight the evil eye (for those who believe it obviously)?
The Neapolitan people, always gifted with great imagination , they made up different remedies to fight the negative influences.
Best remedies to fight the evil eye (malocchio) in Naples
1) THE RED HORN - The King and most important amulet against the evil eye is the "red horn" CURNICIELLO
Perhaps it is the most famous, even symbolically, as tradition dictates , the classic horn from the characteristic red color o coral, should be given as a gift in order to fully fulfill its function. Specifically, the giver should prick the palm of the hand Of those who received it with the tip of the horn , "Only after this RITUAL the horn has been activated" . From this moment on the "corno" can do his job properly .
2) THE SIGN OF THE HORNS exclaiming sciò sciò (Tradition holds that the sign of the horns protects from negative energy)
3) THROWING SALT.....against the evil eye
3) THE UNCHBACK - touching a hunchback can be valid systems.
4) TOUCHING OR RUBBING YOUR GENITALS (Not really from etiquette......)
5) THE HORSESHOE - caressing a horseshoe
Where you can buy the red horn "curniciello" ?
Via San Gregorio Armeno ( the cribs street)
In short, for a true Neapolitan, superstition is something that involves everything, people, animals, objects , body parts . It is so intrinsic in our way of life that we hardly notice it.
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