{"id":71451,"date":"2020-07-17T13:13:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T11:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=71451"},"modified":"2020-07-17T13:13:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T11:13:20","slug":"gesture-manus-fica","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/gesture-manus-fica\/","title":{"rendered":"Gesture manus fica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>manus fica<\/em> (&#8220;fig sign&#8221;) gesture, popular especially in Italy and southern Europe (even Turkey), dates back to the times of ancient <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>. The gesture consists of placing the hand in such a way that the thumb is between the index and middle fingers. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It has been used and is used in various ways: to ward off evil, to offend someone, or to deny a request. In ancient Rome, the gesture was mainly made by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-law\/pater-familias\/\">pater familias<\/a><\/em>, the father of the family, who thus chased away evil spirits during the Lemuria celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>This type of gesture was found on many pendants hung around the neck, and next to, for example, the image of a <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/phallus-symbol-in-roman-and-greek-world\/\">phallus<\/a>, it was supposed to bring happiness to the wearer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":71449,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-71451","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/71451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/71451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=71451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}