Black as guard against Evil Eye

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Black as guard against Evil Eye.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Destructive magic powers. · Bewitching. · view the constellation · filed as D2071.1.4

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Scholars’ trail — 1reference

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

general Penzer I 212, 217.

Within the index

Filed under Averting Evil Eye.

Filed beside it

Evil eye averted by spitting. (Cf. D1001, D1776.)Evil eye averted by swinging cat over child's cradle Simulated change of sex to baffle Evil Eye Countermagic against Evil Eye: returning glance of Evil Eye blights the original glancer

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