#christmas night

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Christmas Night Mass Celebrated in a French Nunnery (1889)

— by Asta Nørregaard

[heatherandthistles]

Christmas nights 🎄✨

[erkmurray]

Lights this year

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[dmckinney79]

Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. Luke 2:11

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Malocchio: Calabria and the old superstitious belief of the evil eye

Generally, in Calabria and Southern Italy, especially in the past, people tended to be afraid of causing jealousy and envy so understate all success.

According to a widespread belief, envy is at the base of malocchio, the evil eye, from the combination of mal, bad, and occhio, eye. The evil eye is a form of curse, transmitted through the gaze, hence the name, many cultures believe causes injury or bad luck to the person it is directed.

The dictionary definition is “malevolent power, attributed by superstition to the gaze of certain people”. There are two different types of this phenomenon: malocchio and affascino, fascination, which means fascinated through malocchio. Both derive from envy, the first has an evil intent and the second may also derive from innocent admiration of another person’s virtues or fortunes; both will cause discomfort and illness.

Older people even today advise to stay alert when one receives too many compliments and to use amulets or prayers as countermeasures: horns, horse shoes, the little hunchback, garlic, hot chili pepper, or throwing salt behind one’s back.

Usually an old lady, who has received this wisdom by the fire during Christmas night, would take a dish with water and would drop three drops of oil. If the oil almost fragments and mixes with water, the person was a victim of malocchio, if instead the oil widens over the dish there is no curse. In the first case, a ritual accompanied by prayers is carried out to free the victim. The ritual would include the use of milk or herbs like rue which apparently has amazing properties. The ritual ended with a prayer and the marking of the “victim” with a cross traced seven times with an oiled finger, which shows the commingling of religion and superstition.

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[lynnella]

Christmas with friends

[yukarinuniversaltraveler]

Christmas NiGHTS is my last drawing of 2023. Tomorrow I'll post my art summary and end-of-the-year reflexive thoughts.

[creationsbyast0ner]

hey guys!! happy thursday! hope u all are doing well. i was feeling a pink christmas theme today so here’s what i came up with. hope u all enjoy. love u all and i appreciate you all so much 🩷

[v-for-venom]

And from now we want to create here a lot of Christmas atmosphere and share with you this winter but very warm photos of Eddie and Vee..) ✨❄️☃️

Photos about their Christmases and X-mas tree and unpacking presents!🎄🎁😚

Let's wait for beautiful and magical Christmas and New Year nights together with our cosy boys! ✨❄️🌛

P.S. Look at this great house of our boys! Do you remember the photostory about how they built it? 😉

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[erkmurray]

First snow in town! Decided to leave the chairlift lights on for the winter

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[heatherandthistles]

Christmas night out 🎄💜