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evil eye
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Definition:an incredibly widespread cultural belief that if someone casts a melevolent glare at somebody, the victim will suffer misfortune. It is mentioned in Jewish, Christian and Islamic texts and is also present in Indian, Chinese and other cultures and religions.
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Ibn 'Abbas reported Allah's Messenger (Peace be upon him) as saying: The influence of an evil eye is a fact; if anything would precede the destiny it would be the influence of an evil eye, and when you are asked to take bath (as a cure) from the influence of an evil eye, you should take bath.
Sahih Muslim, Book 26, Number 5427
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Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Bible. Mark 7:22
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the wizard’s powers of killing or injuring do not differ in essentials from the so-called spirit healing of enlightened America or the working of the “evil eye” still believed in by the ignorant among the peasantry of Italy.
L.H. Samuelson. Some Zulu Customs and Folk-lore
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"[...] this table-turning simply proves that educated society—so called—is no higher than the peasants. They believe in the evil eye, and in witchcraft and omens, while we..."
"Oh, then you don’t believe in it?"
"I can’t believe in it, countess."
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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