From: Asian Folklore Studies | Date: October 1, 1993| Author: Adalsteinsson, Jon Hnefill | COPYRIGHT 1993 Asian Folklore Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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The Evil Eye contains twenty essays by as many scholars, assembled by the editor from a wide variety of sources. He adds to this material a final article that draws conclusions from the foregoing material and offers an interpretation of the evil eye.

The term "evil eye" is used for a wide-ranging phenomenon found in the folkl...