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A Summary Of Evil Eye Beliefs World-Wide

PERPETRATORS

Envious people
Those who praise children
Those who suffer from covetousness
Those with blue eyes (xenophobia among brown-eyed racial groups)
Childless women
People born with the unfortunate propensity to inadvertently project the eye

 

ETIOLOGY

Overlooking (old British term; means gazing too long upon coveted item or child)
Praising without touching or spitting to void the damage
Projection from eye (Sicilian term for one who gives mal occhio is jettatura, from the same root-word as ejaculation and projection)

 

VICTIMS (AND SYMPTOMS)

Nursing infants (they sicken and cry; their mother's milk may dry up)
Young children (they sicken and cry; they may vomit or become listless)
Milk cows and milk goats (they dry up)
Fruit trees (they wither and die or they do not bear fruit)
Fathers and sons (orphans or fathers who have lost sons envy them)
Adult men (they become impotent)
(Note: as Prof. Dundes points out, most of these symptoms involve the loss of FLUIDS.)

 

APOTROPAIC CHARMS and GESTURES

Refusal to accept praise on behalf of child
Spitting on child
Spot of soot or dirt on child so child will not look pretty
Formulaic phrases
Protective hand gestures
Eye amulets (e.g. wadjet eyes, blue-eye charms, ojo de venado)
Eye-in-hand amulets
Hand of power and powerful hand images
Hamsa hand or hand of Fatima / hand of Miriam
Eye-agate amulets or jewelry
Cat's-eye shells
Blue beads
Cord charms that decay and release a blue bead
Mirror charms
Fumigation with Aspand seeds burned on charcoal and recitation of spell
Amulets that replicate protective hand-gestures
Red thread or cord
Red coral horns and twigs
Buckle of Isis amulets
Horseshoes
Crescent-shaped objects

(Note: Some of these involve reflective imagery, others are protective.)

 

CURES

Olive oil dripped into water with prayer
Wax dripped into water with prayer
Coals or match heads dropped into water with prayer
Passing a whole raw egg over the face, then breaking it
Breaking an egg in a dark, shadowed place, unseen
Breaking an egg and drawing a cross on the victim's forehead
Throwing an egg into the bushes or against a tree (if tree is victim)
Placing a broken egg in dish beneath victim's bed
Piercing a lemon with iron nails
Victim drinks three sips of holy water
Victim is bathed in holy water
Victim spits at giver of evil eye three times
Water or spittle from inadvertent perpetrator is passed to mouth of victim
Collection of spittle from group (anonymous donation); victim drinks spittle in holy water

(Note: As Dundes points out, these involve use of fluids and/or eye-shaped objects (egg, lemon) which contain fluid within them)