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

Other author Dundes, Alan.
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1992.
Descriptionix, 318 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects
Evil eye.

Contents 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 Pitrè -- Scoring aboon the breath : defeating the evil eye / Thomas Davidson.
Contents 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.
General noteOriginally published: New York : Garland Pub., 1981, in series: Garland folklore casebooks.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 91031862
ISBN0299133303 (cloth) :
ISBN9780299133306 (cloth)
ISBN0299133346 (paper) :
ISBN9780299133344 (paper)