Is this, or is it not, related to the etymology of "fascism"?
I don't know. It doesn't look semantically implausible: a fascis is a bundle or a burden and a spell may be a binding. Both Lewis & Short and, more authoritatively, the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae give them different Greek cognates, however, so they may just be tantalizingly homonymous. I don't have access to the Oxford Latin Dictionary to triple-check.
And image-searching "fascinus" was delightful! Awww, the little wings!
Someone once spray-painted a penis in the middle of a street adjacent to our former apartment. spatch does not believe there is photographic evidence, but we did take sidewalk chalk and vandalize it into a protective amulet for the entire neighborhood.
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I don't know. It doesn't look semantically implausible: a fascis is a bundle or a burden and a spell may be a binding. Both Lewis & Short and, more authoritatively, the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae give them different Greek cognates, however, so they may just be tantalizingly homonymous. I don't have access to the Oxford Latin Dictionary to triple-check.
And image-searching "fascinus" was delightful! Awww, the little wings!
Someone once spray-painted a penis in the middle of a street adjacent to our former apartment.