Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 273
he medieval sculptors of Lom-bardy, with imagi-nations saturatedwith the medievalsuperstitions whichpeopled air, earthand sea with count-less invisible be-ings, mostly mal-efic, loving to blastand blight everyperfect and beaut i-tiful thing, butwhich could be di-verted by cluirms,incantations… … Fig. 355. Cap iko.m ^Vuuona; Syjiboi.s of EvAXGEiisTS ox A Pui-PiT; Cextaur FROM Sax Ambrooio, Milan. - This su|)el•^tition survives in a real I)iit attenuated form in the jetfaturaof Italy and tiie evil eye of tlie Eastern Mediterranean. 24-6
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