Evil eye

Evil Eye
Alan G. Hefner and Demetrius Drystellas
In folklore and the occult the evil eye is generally thought to be a sign of trouble. Few, if any, will agree that there is an accurate definition of the evil eye.

Evil Eye
A supposed power bestowed on a person whereby his/her glance brings sickness, bad luck, calamity or death.

The Evil Eye went forth from the eye of the heart, and the angel Gabriel met her, and said unto her, 'Whither goest [lxxi] thou, O daughter of destruction?

Hamsa Jewelry - The Hamsa is a Muslim and Jewish symbol of good luck intended to ward off evil and protect against the evil eye and the envious.

Psychic phenomena: curses, blessings, special powers, astrological forces, evil eye
Physical phenomena: magical rites, charms, amulets, firewalking, embedded charms, psychic surgery

Science ...

referring to (a) the practices of independent magicians (real or supposed) who are outside of their society's accepted cultural patterns of behavior and/or (b) a state of being (often involuntarily) a monster who can curse people with the "evil eye." ...

that the soul affected the material body of its possessor, for example in matters of sickness and health; but beyond this, Avicenna says, the soul may operate in the body of another just as in its own, and this is the explanation for the evil eye.

The evil eye will figure among criminal offences. These last years of the XIXth century will have seen us step from progress to progress, till we reach at last this judicial enormity: a second Laubardemont prosecuting another Urbain Grandier." ...

I am a Thuggee, I am feared in the Tongs, I have the Evil Eye, I carry the Mojo Bag; I swam the *Bermuda Triangle* and didn't get wet! I circumcize dinosaurs with my teeth and make 'em leave a tip; I change tires with my *tongue* and my *tool*! ...

See also: Evil, Magic, Spirit, Ritual, World