Saint / folklore
fertility offering superstition
A gesture read as a survival of ancient fertility worship.
In the book
A woman’s ritual gesture that Lewis takes for an offering to a fertility deity — one of the glimpses of pre-Christian cult he keeps catching in and around Naples.
Appears in 1 diary entry.
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October 24 1944Lewis is abruptly ordered to a new mission repatriating Russian ex-POWs, sensing this marks the end of his time in Naples.
a woman's ritualized gesture interpreted as an offering to a fertility deity
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