The Evil eye : a casebook / edited by Alan Dundes.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, (c)1992.Description: ix, 318 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
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Contents:
Arnold van Gennep -- Praise and dispraise in folklore Eugene S. McCartney -- An incantation in the 'House of light' against the evil eye Stephen Langdon -- Proverbs (23: 1-8) and the evil eye in "The wisdom of Sirach" -- The evil eye among the Hebrews Aaron Brav -- The evil eye in South Indian folklore A. Stewart Woodburne -- The evil eye in Iran Bess Allen Donaldson -- The Shilluk's belief in the evil eye D.S. Oyler -- The evil eye and infant health in Lebanon Jamal Karam Harfouche -- The evil eye in some Greek villages of the Upper Haliakmon valley in west Macedonia Margaret M. Hardie (Mrs. F.W. Hasluck) -- The evil eye in Roumania, and its antidotes A. Murgoci -- The jettatura and the evil eye Giuseppe Pitre -- Scoring aboon the breath : defeating the evil eye Thomas Davidson.
Louis C. Jones -- The evil eye in its folk medical aspects : a survey of North America Wayland D. Hand -- Reflections on the evil eye Richard G. Coss -- The evil eye : forms and dynamics of a universal superstition Helmut Schoeck -- The evil eye : envy and greed among the Patidar of central Gujerat D.F. Pocock -- The evil eye Geza Roheim -- Envy and the evil eye among Slovak-Americans : an essay in the psychological ontogeny of belief and ritual Howard F. Stein -- Wet and dry, the evil eye : an essay in Indo-European and Semitic worldview Alan Dundes.
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Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction GN475.6.E95 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923000810792

Originally published: New York : Garland Pub., 1981, in series: Garland folklore casebooks.

Includes bibliographical references.

The research topic : or, folklore without end Arnold van Gennep -- Praise and dispraise in folklore Eugene S. McCartney -- An incantation in the 'House of light' against the evil eye Stephen Langdon -- Proverbs (23: 1-8) and the evil eye in "The wisdom of Sirach" -- The evil eye among the Hebrews Aaron Brav -- The evil eye in South Indian folklore A. Stewart Woodburne -- The evil eye in Iran Bess Allen Donaldson -- The Shilluk's belief in the evil eye D.S. Oyler -- The evil eye and infant health in Lebanon Jamal Karam Harfouche -- The evil eye in some Greek villages of the Upper Haliakmon valley in west Macedonia Margaret M. Hardie (Mrs. F.W. Hasluck) -- The evil eye in Roumania, and its antidotes A. Murgoci -- The jettatura and the evil eye Giuseppe Pitre -- Scoring aboon the breath : defeating the evil eye Thomas Davidson.

The evil eye among European-Americans Louis C. Jones -- The evil eye in its folk medical aspects : a survey of North America Wayland D. Hand -- Reflections on the evil eye Richard G. Coss -- The evil eye : forms and dynamics of a universal superstition Helmut Schoeck -- The evil eye : envy and greed among the Patidar of central Gujerat D.F. Pocock -- The evil eye Geza Roheim -- Envy and the evil eye among Slovak-Americans : an essay in the psychological ontogeny of belief and ritual Howard F. Stein -- Wet and dry, the evil eye : an essay in Indo-European and Semitic worldview Alan Dundes.

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