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To: Red Badger

***Yeah, riiiiiight..................... ***

Actually it was in those days. The art of Pompeii has quite a few of them all over the place. From what I’ve read, they were to attract the first glance and absorb any “evil” from the evil eye.
The book EROS IN POMPEII shows quite a few of them.


28 posted on 02/27/2019 10:53:06 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

https://thechive.com/2017/04/01/the-graffiti-of-ancient-rome-really-puts-our-bathroom-scrawls-to-shame-36-photos/


31 posted on 02/27/2019 10:58:47 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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