Western & Southern Europe · Italy · Against envy
Cornicello
A little horn-shaped charm, worn in Italy against the malocchio, the evil eye, and kin to the fig-hand charm, the mano fico. Old ones were made of red coral, gold or silver; ours are metal only.No dated record of the hornNot recordedWe found no dated early record of the horn charm itself. The nearest dated piece in our files is a related Italian charm, a fig hand, described in the next layer. If you know an early record of the cornicello, we would like to see it.No early record
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