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And you, do you believe in the evil eye?

This popular belief, which one would think relatively young, is older than you can imagine.It is rooted in roots as remote as Sumerian, Babylonian or Assyrian.But do you know what it is, what is called "evil of eye ”? And above all, do you believe in it?

And you, do you believe in the evil eye?

Despite the scientific thought, systematically carried out since the Renaissance and whose full development It began in the 18th century with the encyclopedists, we continue to handle the superstitions .You know that superstition is what is believed, contrary to reason, which attributes magical explanations to natural phenomena and their relationships.This definition excludes religious beliefs, even if they have no scientific basis.

Why do we talk about superstition? Because the evil eye is rooted in ancient beliefs, appearing almost since the emergence of human consciousness, in which one person, voluntarily or involuntarily, is capable of harming another through the look .

Have you ever heard the expression "have a strong look," or "heavy"? Undoubtedly, when someone says that, he means that person can turn a blind eye , or flip through .

Of course, throughout the entire Middle Ages, witches were accused of this, and the victims felt bad, got sick, fell out of favor, lost their fortune (if they had one) and could even die.All because of the evil eye .

The Greeks, who have always been very wise and studious, attributed to envy one of the most negative powers a person can hold, and in fact the Catalan writer of the century XIX, Vicente Joaquin Bastus , wrote that the word envy derived from the expression in Greek "the one who looks at us with a bad eye", the one who looks at us badly, wishes us badly or wants what we have; in other words, the evil eye.

And you, do you believe in the evil eye?

In 1425 a very interesting Spanish character, Enrique de Villena , called the Astrologer or the Necromancer , he wrote works related to the occult sciences, many of them lost or ordered to be burned by King Juan II of Castile.Among his works there is a treatise on the evil eye, and there he speaks of "drowning", the process by which someone was damaged and that, according to him, the doctors called "fascination."

In the Christian world-especially the Catholic-the evil eye does not exist , because it would be a subject deviated from the norm, a superstitious vestige of pagan religions .However, it is an even widespread belief, so much so that there is a whole “manual” to know if one they have cast a bad eye on him, and of course, how to counter him.

And you, do you believe in the evil eye?

Envy is supposed to be the engine of bad desires: by wanting too much what another person has, even in a good way, that activates in the "emitter" a whole gear of evil that produces damage to the envied or admired; there are people more envious than others, and according to popular belief, so many bad feelings accumulate within them that just with their eyes, that they load and that is why it is "strong" or "heavy", they can cause evil.They say that the plants they look wilt and die.

And you, do you believe in the evil eye?

Who has been the victim of an evil eye has tiredness, heaviness, quite severe eye infections, and all this ends up making the affected person sick, producing eventually death.

Children are the most vulnerable, who are attacked to harm their parents.Everywhere, in all cultures and civilizations, there are amulets and talismans , rituals and prayers to protect them from the evil eye: think, for example, of the Eye of Horus, in Ancient Egypt...

And you, do you believe in the evil eye?

Horus

...or the nazar , a talisman widely used in Turkey today; or in the cowbells that in Basque Alava, in Spain, cows were placed to scare away the evils that lurked cattle.Necklaces and bracelets of different stones (amber, jet, a call ixahi used in Mexico and Central America), seeds and even remains of umbilical cord is rubbed to babies to protect and cure them, a task performed mainly by healers.

And you, do you believe in the evil eye?

Bracelets with jet beads.The largest figure, red, is a protective puno

The indigenous Pemon, in Venezuela, use the taren-prayers or magical spells of great beauty-to free the souls of children who have been hurt by the eyes.

So, you see, the evil eye is deeply mixed in our beliefs, and the ma s curious and interesting is that is something we have in common all human beings .Of course, you are free to believe or not...but just in case just look at what happens if we see someone fixedly.

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