ABSTRACT
Some time ago a friend of mine and one of his colleagues, while touring archeological sites in Turkey, were walking along a road near Ephesus. They had been looking for a particular feature without success when they came upon an old man and a young girl, presumably his granddaughter. They asked him for directions and then moved on. My friend asked his colleague if he had seen what the old man had done as they approached. He had not noticed, so my friend explained that the man had made a sign with one hand, by closing his thumb and two middle fingers while extending his outer fingers, so that his hand looked like a pair of horns, which he had pointed downwards and moved up and down. My friend’s colleague did not know the significance of this even when it had been described to him.
