Carusu (plural carusi) is the Sicilian word for `boy` and is derived from the Latin carens which means `missing of experience.` In the mid-1800s through the early 1900s in Sicily, carusu was used to denote a `mine-boy`, a labourer in a sulfur, salt or potash mine who worked next to a picuneri or pick-man, and carried raw ore from deep in the...