Apotropaically

Submitted by Guus on Wed, 05/21/2008 - 7:30am

Intended to ward off evil (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/apotropaically)

Where I found or heard this:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2008/05/liveblogging_k…

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