in the Mulberry Bend area of New York City,
he was not a mob boss, a
hit man, or even a gang member, but when ever in the late 1890s, the tiny,
friendless Casoli Paracrotti in dirty rags pushed his cart around Mulberry
Bend, the crowds would immediately disperse, the more religious among them
would mutter prayers and turn away, while the superstitious clutched their
talismans and rubbed the feet of dead rabbits, even the children scurried away
in fright, but waht was he? a banana seller! and not a very successful one as many
of his potential customers fled from him, Paracrotti was not a criminal
mastermind, a crooked law patrolman or a man of violence, but he was what the
Italians refer to as a jettatore-- a jinx, a bringer of bad luck, possessor of
the dreaded "evil eye", and it has been written that more than 50 persons
met their demise simply by being acquainted with him, for this reason
Paracrotti was a lonely man; no man wanted to be his friend, no woman wanted to
marry him, and even inside the Catholic church on Roosevelt Street he was
relegated to the back pew, shunned as if he were the carrier of a deadly and
highly contagious disease, You may feel sorry for Paracrotti, but first read the history
that brought him from southern Italy to New York, and the extensive trail of dead people he left in his wake, Paracrotti was arrested several times, but he doesn't come across as an evil
man, His reputation as a jinx came about because he was careless and not all
that smart, with deadly consequences, if you fancy a quick but incredible read have a look at the link, it really does seemed that he was somehow jinxed, or was he?
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