#Christmas night

[vox-anglosphere]

Dusk

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Christmas Night Mass Celebrated in a French Nunnery (1889)

— by Asta Nørregaard

[pangarina-angelin-a]

Thank you for the reblog ~ photosworthseeing / Bud🌟it means a lot to me.

[r0tt1ngang3l]

people say santa doesn’t exist but i still make sure to let him find milk and cookies on christmas night

[heatherandthistles]

Christmas nights 🎄✨

[lupaal]

[erkmurray]

Lights this year

[calabria-mediterranea]

Malocchio: Calabria and the old superstitious belief of the evil eye

Generally, in Calabria and Southern Italy, especially in the past, people tended to be afraid of causing jealousy and envy so understate all success.

According to a widespread belief, envy is at the base of malocchio, the evil eye, from the combination of mal, bad, and occhio, eye. The evil eye is a form of curse, transmitted through the gaze, hence the name, many cultures believe causes injury or bad luck to the person it is directed.

The dictionary definition is “malevolent power, attributed by superstition to the gaze of certain people”. There are two different types of this phenomenon: malocchio and affascino, fascination, which means fascinated through malocchio. Both derive from envy, the first has an evil intent and the second may also derive from innocent admiration of another person’s virtues or fortunes; both will cause discomfort and illness.

Older people even today advise to stay alert when one receives too many compliments and to use amulets or prayers as countermeasures: horns, horse shoes, the little hunchback, garlic, hot chili pepper, or throwing salt behind one’s back.

Usually an old lady, who has received this wisdom by the fire during Christmas night, would take a dish with water and would drop three drops of oil. If the oil almost fragments and mixes with water, the person was a victim of malocchio, if instead the oil widens over the dish there is no curse. In the first case, a ritual accompanied by prayers is carried out to free the victim. The ritual would include the use of milk or herbs like rue which apparently has amazing properties. The ritual ended with a prayer and the marking of the “victim” with a cross traced seven times with an oiled finger, which shows the commingling of religion and superstition.

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[chocolire]

“Where the Heart Warms”~🎄

[dani-posts]

🎄 🎁

[entertainmentmask]

Finally quality time at christmas night

i love drawing Lake with a scarf, and since i'm in brazil, it's only fitting they use shorts, because well it's hot in here.

They are cuties!

[relaxedstyles]

Featuring Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots 🎁

[dmckinney79]

Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. Luke 2:11

[ask-emma-the-cat]

vintage oldies playing in another room on a wonderful christmas night🎅

[lynnella]

Christmas with friends

[aretis]

Christmas dinner for two 🎄✨🥂