Italian Wives’ Tales
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I come from an Italian family. There are so many crazy old wives’ tales. Break a mirror, seven years of bad luck. If your right hand itches – you’re coming into money. If it’s left, you’re losing money.
The most bizarre one is putting a glass on someone’s head upside down to see if they have the “Evil Eye” on them. A lifeguard in Anacapri did this to me with a full glass of water to see if the water started to bubble to determine if I had a heat stroke. It was the most bizarre thing in the world.
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