Hi Tal, I grew up in an Italian neighborhood too and the "evil eye" or malok (sp?) was taken very seriously. Everyone wore the gold hand with the last two fingers out to ward off the evil eye. Of course, coming from Cicero everything was 18k gold and fell off a truck somewhere. Also, wearing red, kept you from being "overlooked" So the women, if they were going to some event where they knew they would be seeing another woman they didn't particularly trust or care for, would wear red so as not to be "overlooked" which was just another form of the "evil eye". lol It was really a great childhood that didn't leave me with any neurosis of course. lol
