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Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Evil Eye

by Clarence Maloney (ed.)

A collection of anthropological essays on evil-eye belief from the Mediterranean and the Middle East to South Asia. The volume compares how different societies diagnose the eye's harm and protect children, animals and property against it.

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