Etruscan Roman remains in popular tradition (1892)
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 · London, T. F. Unwin · leaf 269
nerationor begetting, such as life, love, revival, birth, fruitfulness, and coupling of the sexes,was associated with light and reviving springtime, therefore the pig, though it wasas a wild boar a symbol of death and darkness, yet because it is enormously prolificand one of the most libidinous of… … THE .ATTITUDE FOR DREAMING. fruitfulness, was known as a pig, and has for this reason always been worn as acharm for luck. The cowrie shell, from its resemblance to the same organwas also called a pig, and is extensively used at the present day in the East asa charm against the evil eye. In Varro…
Folklore · Superstition
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