stackyFACTSNothing wards off bad juju quite like wearing anatomically explicit jewelry to a business meeting.
Nothing wards off bad juju quite like wearing anatomically explicit jewelry to a business meeting. The ancient Romans lived in absolute terror of the 'evil eye'—a curse cast by a malevolent glare. Their ultimate mystical defense mechanism was the 'fascinus,' an amulet shaped like a flying penis. They put these things on everything from babies to military generals, fully believing that a magical flying phallus would distract the curse away from them.
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