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Gypsy sorcery and fortune telling : illustrated by numerous incantations, specimens of medical magic, anecdotes and tales (1891)

Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903, University of Leeds. Library · London : T. Fisher Unwin · leaf 179

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ROUMANIAN AND TRANSYLVANIAN SORCERIES 141 modern apple inherited its traditions are a symbol of sexual love. In Florence women wishing for children go to a priest and get from him a blessed apple, over which they pronounce an incantation to Santa Anna — la San' Na — who was the Lucina of the Latins.

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