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Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Evil Eye

by Frederick Thomas Elworthy

A Victorian antiquary's large survey of evil-eye belief and of the amulets, gestures and charms used against it, from ancient Rome to contemporary Naples. Its interpretive framework of primitive survivals is dated, but its descriptions and illustrations of objects remain valuable.

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