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The evil eye. An account of this ancient and wide spread superstition

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VII MANUAL NUMERATION<br />

<strong>The</strong> Abate says that the Romans obtained their<br />

gestures from the Greeks ; that the Greek word<br />

Fig. 93.<br />

chirono77iia had been adopted (into Latin) to denote<br />

the art <strong>of</strong> gesture. He asserts that the invention <strong>of</strong><br />

o^estures for manual numeration was from the heroic

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