The Evil eye : a casebook /

The Evil eye : a casebook / edited by Alan Dundes. - Madison, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, (c)1992. - ix, 318 pages ; 23 cm.

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

Includes bibliographical references.

The research topic : or, folklore without end Praise and dispraise in folklore An incantation in the 'House of light' against the evil eye Proverbs (23: 1-8) and the evil eye in "The wisdom of Sirach" -- The evil eye among the Hebrews The evil eye in South Indian folklore The evil eye in Iran The Shilluk's belief in the evil eye The evil eye and infant health in Lebanon The evil eye in some Greek villages of the Upper Haliakmon valley in west Macedonia The evil eye in Roumania, and its antidotes The jettatura and the evil eye Scoring aboon the breath : defeating the evil eye Arnold van Gennep -- Eugene S. McCartney -- Stephen Langdon -- Aaron Brav -- A. Stewart Woodburne -- Bess Allen Donaldson -- D.S. Oyler -- Jamal Karam Harfouche -- Margaret M. Hardie (Mrs. F.W. Hasluck) -- A. Murgoci -- Giuseppe Pitre -- Thomas Davidson. The evil eye among European-Americans The evil eye in its folk medical aspects : a survey of North America Reflections on the evil eye The evil eye : forms and dynamics of a universal superstition The evil eye : envy and greed among the Patidar of central Gujerat The evil eye Envy and the evil eye among Slovak-Americans : an essay in the psychological ontogeny of belief and ritual Wet and dry, the evil eye : an essay in Indo-European and Semitic worldview Louis C. Jones -- Wayland D. Hand -- Richard G. Coss -- Helmut Schoeck -- D.F. Pocock -- Geza Roheim -- Howard F. Stein -- Alan Dundes.



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GN475 / .E955 1992 GN475