lundi 3 octobre 2011

Definition of the Evil Eye

By Agus Rahman


Why the Evil Eye bead is more than only a good luck elegance:

The Evil Eye is more than just a superstitious myth, and evil eye beads are more than just good luck charms. They are a reminder that we are all one people.

How's that?

Take an Orthodox from Greece, a Catholic from Mexico, a Jew from Israel, or a Muslim from Turkey, Iran, or anywhere in the Middle East. Different people, different religions, everybody always fighting all the time, etc, etc.

However what do they all have in average? They all believe in the Evil Eye, and they all wear these good luck charms to guard against it.

The Evil Eye is a reminder that below it all, we are all the same human beings, even if we think we're different.

In our eye lids, that's what makes the evil eye REALLY cool!

Enough editorial, now for the straight story...

Throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East, a lot of people believe envious gazes or high praise from others may bring you bad luck.

The people who praise you probably mean you no harm, however still, evil spirits can piggyback in on their words or looks, and put a bad luck curse on you.

The Nazar Boncuk elegance (or Evil Eye Bead) is an "eye", often established on a blue background. It stares back at the world to ward off the evil spirits and keep you safe from harm. It is one of the most normal stuff of decoration in any Turkish home, in any car, or on any person. You may see the charm hanging above doorways, dangling from the wrists of young females, or even planted right into the cement outside contemporary office buildings. And always, always, you will see them pinned to the shirts of newborn babies.

What do the colours mean? In Turkey and surrounding countries, the most fashionable evil eye elegance color is blue. Turkey is in a dry portion of the world, where waterway is precious -- with river things prosper and grow, and without it, things shrivel and die. The color blue reminds people of fresh, cool water. In the Jewish faith, the color red is commonly associated with luck and good fortune, so red is too a trendy color.

When the Evil Eye Bead appear in other colors except blue or red, it is usually for style reasons -- color coordination with one's wardrobe. Beads in the alternative colours have each bit as significantly protective power as the common blue ones.

Evil eye beads go back hundreds of years. The earliest written references to the evil eye occur on Sumerian clay tablets dating to the third millennium BC. Agate beads of unique quality, worn to protect the wearer from the influence of the evil eye, were too found in royal Sumerian graves at Ur.

In Turkey and Greece, throughout the republics of Central Asia, and all the way to the Turkic regions of western China -- the effects of the "evil eye" are believed real, and genuinely feared.




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