They cross their fingers and spit over their shoulders as charms against the evil eye. 他们手指交叉,向身后吐口水,作为抵抗邪眼的魔法。
他们手指交叉,向身后吐口水,作为抵抗邪眼的魔法They cross their fingers and spit over their shoulders as charms against the evil eye. · 口 · 吐 · 吐,唾(唾沫、食物等);啐唾沫(常表示愤怒或鄙视);怒斥-spit · 抗 · 抵 · 水 · 法 · 眼 · 邪 · 魔
Across regions, religions, cultures, castes and classes, widows can be stigmatized as bringing bad luck, being “inauspicious” or having the “evil eye”.
Having newborn babies wear an azabache (a gold bracelet or necklace with a black or red coral charm in the form of a fist), is believed to protect them from the evil eye.
Amulets were one of the most common protections (or counter-magics) used in the Greco-Roman world as protection against such fearful things as curses and the evil eye; which were seen as very real by most of its inhabitants.
The pathetic lot of the envious person is set forth in the inspired proverb: “A man of envious [literally, “bad; evil”] eye is bestirring himself after valuable things, but he does not know that want itself will come upon him.”
These are known as ethnic disorders and, more recently, as culture bound syndromes, and include the evil eye and tarantism among European peasants, being possessed or in a state of trance in many cultures, and nervous anorexia, nerves and premenstrual syndrome in Western societies.
In the Lord’s Prayer, they prayed for “our supersubstantial bread” (meaning “spiritual bread”) instead of “our daily bread,” material bread being a necessary evil in their eyes.
The making of them was a ‘ruinous act,’ the committing of evil in Jehovah’s eyes, a detestable and offensive thing bringing his curse upon those doing so.
(1Jo 2:16, 17) Many of the emotions are likewise expressed by the eyes, and so the Scriptures use the expressions “lofty [haughty] eyes” (Pr 6:17); “lustrous eyes” (of the bad, seductive woman —Pr 6:25); “eyes full of adultery” (2Pe 2:14); the “ungenerous eye” (Pr 23:6); the “envious eye” (Pr 28:22); the ‘eye that is wicked’ (‘evil eye,’ KJ); the latter does not refer to any magical quality of the eye, but to an eye with bad intent, the opposite of an eye that is “kindly.” —Mt 20:15; Pr 22:9.