Although Christianized for over 1,500 years, these Bretons still retain charms of the New Stone Age for warding off the evil eye. [1]
Human prosperity was supposed to be especially provocative of the envy of evil spirits, and their method of retaliation was to strike back through a human agency and by the technique of the evil eye. The Koran contains a whole chapter devoted to the evil eye. [2] And intelligent human beings still believe in good luck, the evil eye, and astrology. [3] The whole phallic cult grew up as a defense against the evil eye. [4]
Many primitive peoples believed the soul looked out upon the world through human eyes; therefore did they so cravenly fear the malevolence of the evil eye. [5] Primitives thought much sickness caused by evil eye. [6] The monotheists keep their subordinate gods as spirits, demons, fates, Nereids, fairies, brownies, dwarfs, banshees, and the evil eye. [7]