I thought so. I thought that this forum here in particular would be a great place to discuss it. The Evil eye is really a wide spread concept, if not always believed physically but as a superstition. I mean I know I have heard of it here in the US.Alura Noel wrote:This is a really interesting topic.
Thats actually kinda cool. It sort of reminds me of the first sculpture I had to make in my college sculpture class. It was a Hamsa or hand of God. The amulet we were asked to design and make in our own fashion was essentially a hamsa that we choose to design.Alura Noel wrote:When I lived in Turkey, where they believe in Nazar Boncugu, or the evil eye, they had a lot of talismans like this to protect the wearer from it:
Just about everyone believes in it and has one of these.
Hamsa:
Mine was basically the hand with a Pentacle inside the eye. I figured that the original hand and eye symbolism to protect from the evil eye was so powerful I might as well just basically make my own with just a slight alteration. The pentacle to me made it go from an Abrahamic focused amulet to a witchy amulet. I gave it to my mom as a gift.
That is interesting about the color of the eyes and the cultural associations. I wonder if maybe the images of a witch in that culture has to do with it.Alura Noel wrote:When my family was stationed in Turkey (my dad was air force) whenever we would go out places, because I have Blue/Green eyes the Turkish would like to touch me for "good luck." It was impossible to go anywhere without someone stopping us and wanting to pinch my cheek and touch me for luck. I was very young, by my parents said I didn't care much for it.
I think it's interesting how people in your country, or at least just you, think people with light colored eyes can hex people whereas the turkish were non-stop cheek pinching to get good luck because of my eye color.
Personally if I were you I wouldn't have liked that touching for good luck either.
Thats another idea behind the evil eye. That ill will and dislike intentions can be spread simply by the look you give a person. I think we all have an eye like that we use on our family and friends to express extreme displeasure.Alura Noel wrote:My dad says I have the most powerful "stink eye" or evil eye when I chose to do it out of the members in my family. That's a really common saying with my family when someone gives this look, it isn't out of envy or jealousy. More like, dislike.