#apopotraia

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love how Dio popularized the 🤘(La Corna) at concerts because he saw his Italian grandmother doing it. The Horns are an ancient form of magic (apopotraia) that wards off evil, like the Nazar, dating back all the way to Mycenaean creece (some argue Minoan Crete)

[chthonic-sorcery]

A Simple Ancient Doorway Protection Charm ☆

Written above Doorways in the later Roman period, inhabitants of the home would declare a hero or god to live there so as to keep evil, danger or sickness from entering.

An example below asserts that Herakles, Hercules, identified by his divine parentage of Zeus, lives in the home and that no evil shall enter. It was supposed to scare off less powerful spirits.

Learn more here