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The evil eye is a folk belief that the envy elicited by the good luck of fortunate people may result in their misfortune, whether it is envy of material possessions including livestock or of beauty, health, or offspring. The perception of the nature of the phenomenon, its causes, and possible protective measures, varies between different cultures.

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History

The amount of literary and archaeological evidence attests to the belief in the evil eye in the eastern Mediterranean for more than a millennium starting with Hesiod, Callimachus, Plato, Diodorus Siculus, Theocritus, Plutarch, Heliodorus, Pliny the Elder, and Aulus Gellius. In Peter Walcot's Envy and the Greeks(1978) he referenced more than one hundred of these authors works related to the evil eye. Studying these written sources in order to write on the evil eye only gives a fragmented view of the subject whether it presents a folkloric, theological, classical or anthropological approach to the evil eye. While these different approaches tend to reference similar sources each presents a different yet similar usage of the evil eye, that the fear of the evil eye is based on the belief that certain people posses eyes whose glance has the power to injure or even kill and that it can be intentional or unintentional. The origin of the belief can only be guessed, but it can be traced back to the earliest of human records and the references in Deuteronomy indicate that the evil eye was known in the Hebraic world.

Names in various languages

In most languages the name translates literally into English as "bad eye", "evil eye", "evil look", or just "the eye". Some variants on this general pattern from around the world are:

• Albanian language "mer më sysh" (to give somebody the bad eye)
• Armenian "atchka ooloonk" (eye bead); "char atchk" (bad eye)
• Amharic "Buda" (one with envious eyes)
• Standard Arabic ??? ??? ayin hasad (eye of envy)
• Tunisian Arabic "'ayn l-mrida" (sick eye)
• Azerbaijani "göz d?ym?si" (touching of eye); "k?m göz" (evil eye); often simply "göz" (the eye)
• Bulgarian "uroki"
• Chamorro "Atan baba"
• Croatian "Urokljivo oko" (the cursing eye)
• Dutch "het boze oog" (the evil eye)
• Persian "bla band" (the eye of evil)^[4]
• Filipino "Matang Nanlilisik" (literally: evil eye); "Usog"
• Finnish "Paha silmä" (evil eye)
• French "Le Mauvais Oeil", "La Guigne", "La Skoumoune", depending on region
• German "Böser Blick" (evil gaze)
• In Greek, to matiasma (????????) or mati (????) someone refers to the act of casting the evil eye (Mati being the Greek word for eye); also: "vaskania" (????????, the Greek word for jinx)
• Hebrew "ayin ha'ra" (the evil eye)^[4]
• Hungarian szemmel verés (beating with eyes)
• Italian, malocchio (malignant bad eye)^[4]
• Maltese "l-ghajn" (the eye)
• In Persian various terms can be found, depending on the region. In Iran, people use Ce?me Zaxm (pronounced ”Cheshmé Zahm”) which means 'eye of harm', or Ce?me Šur (pronounced "Cheshmé Shoor") meaning 'Sour Eyes'. In Afghanistan, Dari-speaking people use the terms "nazar" (vision) or "chashmi bad" (bad or evil eye). Tajiki-speakers use the terms "chashmi bad" (bad or evil eye) or simply "chashmi" (derived from the word "chashm", meaning "eye");
• Polish z?e oko (evil eye)
• Portuguese, olho gordo (fat eye), quebranto (breaker) or mau olhado (bad gaze)
• Romanian [[deochi]] (from the eye)
• Russian ????? (a noun from verb ???????? from noun ???? - "an eye")
• Sicilian, ucchiatura ("eye activity")
• In Slovak little babies are said to have a malady named z o?ú (from the eyes)
• In Spanish, the phrase is mal de ojo (the eye's curse) or simply el ojo (the eye)
• Swedish "onda ögat" (the evil eye)
• Tagalog "ohiya" or mata ng diablo (the devil's eye)
• Turkish "Nazar" (stare) or "kem göz" (evil eye) or simply "göz" (eye)
• Urdu "buri nazar" or simply "nazar" ("bad vision" or simply "vision")
• Yiddish aynore or ahore (from Hebrew ??? ??? ^cayin hara^c);