GESTURES the gesture of the manufica can either be done with the right and left, the act of tightening the thumb between the index and middle fingers is a gesture of defiance that in popular belief, serves to remove the influences of evil people and the evil eye in general. The gesture is taken as an amulet that depicts him, known in antiquity to the Greeks and the Romans that even then, he attributed the meaning of invocation. Woodcut, Italy circa 1850

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title: GESTURE OF MANUFICA

subject date: 2016-10-12

caption: GESTURES the gesture of the manufica can either be done with the right and left, the act of tightening the thumb between the index and middle fingers is a gesture of defiance that in popular belief, serves to remove the influences of evil people and the evil eye in general. The gesture is taken as an amulet that depicts him, known in antiquity to the Greeks and the Romans that even then, he attributed the meaning of invocation. Woodcut, Italy circa 1850

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image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

subject century: XIX

subject epoch: Ottocento

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