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"text": "As to the evil eye, most Italians firmly believe in it, and to turn it aside use a little horn of coral and turn it point forward towards any one who “casts the evil eye,\" muttering the word \"corna.\"",
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},
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"ref": "1851, Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Epistles of Paul to the Ephesians, page 205",
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"text": "Sovereign gods, hinder, turn aside from this property and from the crops growing in it— among the grapevines, among the olive trees, among the seeded places—hail, rust, the anger of Typhonian winds, swarm of deadly locusts... as long as these stones engraved with your sacred names are here lying about the land.",
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"text": "Hathi will not turn aside for the Striped One. Yet Hathi and the Striped One together turn aside for the dhole, and the dhole they say turn aside for nothing.",
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},
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"text": "In his surprise Moses said to himself, \"I will now turn aside and see this great sight why the bush is not burned. And, when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said Moses, Moses.",
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