Averting Evil Eye

Motif

Averting Evil Eye.

Magic. · Magic powers and manifestations. · Manifestations of magic power. · Destructive magic powers. · Bewitching. · view the constellation · filed as D2071.1

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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 See references for D1070, Magic ornaments, a large number of which are used to keep off the Evil Eye. India: Thompson-Balys.

Within the index

Filed under Evil Eye. Bewitching by means of a glance.

5 finer motifs beneath 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 Black as guard against Evil Eye Countermagic against Evil Eye: returning glance of Evil Eye blights the original glancer

Filed beside it

Evil eye covered with seven veils Evil eye from exposure to magic concoction Man with power of evil eye cannot look at any living thing before breaking fast in the morning without causing it to wither and die Person kills with Evil Eye

Travels with

Miscellaneous ways to overcome curses. (Cf. D2071.1.)

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