May 13, 2021
Medieval Amulets - Italian Cimaruta
The cimaruta is an Italian folk charm, a type traditionally worn around the neck or hung above an infant's bed to ward off the evil eye. several small apotropaic charms (some of which draw upon Christian symbolism), with each individual piece attached to what is supposed to represent a branch of rue—the flowering medicinal herb for which the whole talisman is named, "cimaruta" being a Neapolitan form of cima di ruta: Italian for "sprig of rue".