The Mano Fico (fig hand) is an ancient obscene gesture, and
is also one of the better known protective gestures against the eye. The thumb
and fist gesture is an ancient representation of sexual union. The name is from
the Italian word for the female vulva, fica, meaning fig (and also
the origin of an english obscenity). The fig was associated by the romans with
female fertility and eroticism; the fruit was sacred to Bacchus.
The
gesture is usedagainst the evil eye in the belief that an obscenity serves as
a distraction to evil.
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