my Facebook page<\/a>, sign up for my newsletter, and Tweet this post. It\u2019s good karma, the universe will reward you\u2014and the gods of the search engines will reward me in return.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn nomine Google, et Bing, et Yahoo Sancti\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nEvil Eye and Malocchio FAQs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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What is the Evil Eye (Malocchio)?<\/h3>\n\n\n
The evil eye is a curse that is caused by attracting too much envy to yourself. The Italian word is malocchio, but a similar concept exists in other culture<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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How do you cure the Evil Eye?<\/h3>\n\n\n
There is a special prayer given by an Italian grandmother who has been taught the ritual. You\u2019ll also need a dish made from silver, a pair of scissors, some holy water, iodized salt, and extra virgin olive oil.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What are the words to the malocchio<\/em> prayer in Italian?<\/h3>\n\n\n
\u201cMmidia e malocchio
curnucille all`occhio
crepa l`ammidia, e scoppia lu malocchio!
N\u2019 nome di Di e d\u2019 Santa Mari
lu malocchio se n\u2019 pozza ye!
Lunedi Santo, Martedi Santo, Mercoledi Santo,Giovedi Santo, Venerdi
Santo, Sabato Santo, e Domenica di Pasqua, lu malocchio crepa!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian superstitions, especially the malocchio (evil eye), are nothing to joke about. People have been aware of this phenomenon for centuries and are still very much aware of its power today. So here we go again to follow up on this inexplicably viral post on Italian superstitions, In this post, I\u2019ll venture deeper into evil eye […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,202],"tags":[135,136,92,48,93,175,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12153,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/12153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rickzullo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}