The Evil Eye: A CasebookAlan Dundes Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1992 - 318 pages The evil eye--the power to inflict illness, damage to property, or even death simply by gazing at or praising someone--is among the most pervasive and powerful folk beliefs in the Indo-European and Semitic world. It is also one of the oldest, judging from its appearance in the Bible and in Sumerian texts five thousand years old. Remnants of the superstition persist today when we drink toasts, tip waiters, and bless sneezers. To avert the evil eye, Muslim women wear veils, baseball players avoid mentioning a no-hitter in progress, and traditional Jews say their business or health is "not bad" (rather than "good"). |
Table des matières
Or Folklore Without End | 3 |
Praise and Dispraise in Folklore | 9 |
An Incantation in the House of Light Against the Evil Eye | 39 |
The Evil Eye in South Indian Folklore | 55 |
The Evil Eye in Iran | 66 |
The Shilluks Belief in the Evil Eye | 78 |
The Evil Eye and Infant Health in Lebanon | 86 |
The Evil Eye in Some Greek Villages of the Upper | 107 |
The Evil Eye Among EuropeanAmericans | 150 |
A Survey | 169 |
Reflections on the Evil Eye | 181 |
Forms and Dynamics of a Universal | 192 |
The Evil EyeEnvy and Greed Among the Patidar | 201 |
The Evil Eye | 211 |
An Essay | 223 |
An Essay in IndoEuropean | 257 |
The Evil Eye in Roumania and Its Antidotes | 124 |
The Jettatura and the Evil Eye | 130 |
Defeating the Evil Eye | 143 |
Bibliographical Addendum | 313 |
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