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256 THE MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST ’
her finger every time he comes to her work-table.
She will never be afraid to kiss him. Although she
has sickness constantly in the house, and the
servants leave, and her friends draw away, she never
notices anything.
But after the jettatore has come out into the world,
he often has a hard time enough. Every one must
first of all think of himself; no one can ruin his life
by being kind to a jettatore.
There are several priests who arzjettatori. There
is nothing strange in that; the wolf is happy if he
can tear to pieces many sheep. They could not
very well do more harm than by being priests.
One need only ask what happens to the
children whom he baptizes, and the couples whom he
marries.
The jettatore in question was an engineer and
wished to build railways. He had also a position
in one of the state railway buildings. The state
could not know that he was a jettatore. Ah, but
what misery, what misery! As soon as he obtained
a place on the railway a number of accidents
occurred. When they tunnelled through a hill, one
cave-in after another; when they tried to lay a
bridge, breach upon breach; when they exploded a
blast, the workmen were killed by the flying
fragments.
The only one who was never injured was the
engineer, the jettatore.
The poor fellows working under him! They
counted their fingers and limbs every evening.
“To-morrow perhaps we will have lost you,” they
said.
They informed the chief engineer; they informed
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