The evil eye, or the evil eye, is a kind of hard-to-explain phenomenon of a mystical nature that many people possess to one degree or another. It is expressed in the ability of one person with a glance or a word to exert a certain mental impact on another person, on a living being and even on an inanimate object.
The Russian language gives a very precise and simple definition of the evil eye: in reality, it is, in fact, a process of transmitting negative information from the eyes. That is, the evil eye is the result of mental activity, in which the human sign system is not involved. But the evil eye can still be strengthened by a word …
It is believed that the evil eye is always negative. But in fact, the influence of thought can have a positive effect. The fact is that, usually, a person is not inclined to attribute his successes, good health and other positive results to the influence of other people on him. However, we readily blame anyone for all failures and illnesses, but not ourselves.
The phenomenon of the evil eye has been known for a long time. The earliest mentions of him date back to the III millennium BC. e. There is also evidence that in some cultures the evil eye was considered a serious crime and those who brought misfortune to people with their own eyes were severely punished, and sometimes even executed.
To what extent the people attached great importance to the evil eye, can be seen from the Talmud, which says that only one person out of 100 died a natural death, and 99 - from the evil eye. Moreover, in the Middle Ages there was even a list of diseases caused by the evil eye. At the same time, it was believed that in adults, the evil eye causes thinness, convulsions, melancholy, and in children - insomnia, nausea, and epileptic seizures.
But, despite the fact that the evil eye in any culture is taken quite seriously, nevertheless, different peoples have their own national ideas about evil eyes. For example, among the Slavic peoples, slanting, running, shiny, black and brown eyes are considered dangerous. But the Germans believe that a person with thick fused eyebrows can jinx. They are even convinced that a person with such signs with just one glance can bring not only illness, but also premature death. In turn, oriental people consider blue eyes harmful.
1877 - the great Russian portrait painter Ilya Efimovich Repin painted the picture "A Man with an Evil Eye". It depicts a generalized type of person who is able to harm with his glance. The hero of the picture has thick, frowned eyebrows and shining eyes, in which undisguised anger is hidden.
But it is quite difficult to determine by some special signs or markers a person with bad eyes, because any person can become one - a woman or a man: it all depends on the circumstances. And there is no particular difference in the color of the eyes, their size and shape, facial expression and the thickness of the eyebrows. The main and determining factor is the thoughts, which are transmitted by the gaze, and the energy with which they are thrown into the surrounding world. Even a person who does not have the ability to evil eye can bring certain evil. But such an evil eye will not bring too much trouble.
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Much more dangerous is a person who has the gift of the evil eye. His look is special. In it, as in a poisonous mixture, insidious thoughts, fierce anger, deep resentment and unquenchable envy are lurking at the same time. Therefore, long and intent glances, especially with such signs, should be avoided.
By the way, it has long been noticed that any person has a rather negative attitude towards the gaze of an outsider. Psychologists suggested that this is a kind of psychological protection from a bad look, which he has inherent in his hereditary structures.
Continuing the conversation about the national characteristics of the evil eye, it should be noted that they are especially afraid of the influence of the evil eye in the East. The peoples of these regions, to protect themselves from the evil eye, use different talismans and amulets. Moreover, these protective equipment can be seen not only on people, but also on a variety of objects: household appliances, cars and even toys.
So, in Turkey, the drawing of the most effective talisman for the "bad look" - nazar - can be seen on taxi doors, on the walls of many buildings and bureaucratic offices, and even on airplanes. This symbol is an image of a blue eye on a white background …
If we talk about the age that is most susceptible to the influence of the evil eye, then bioenergetics believe that the easiest way is to violate the child's biofield. This is because a defense mechanism of this kind is not formed in a person immediately, but over time. For this reason, children under one and a half years of age are especially susceptible to the influence of the evil eye. A child at this age cannot offer serious resistance to negative influence, therefore he reacts to it only by crying.
Like young children, pregnant women are also easily misleading. To avoid this, different peoples against the evil eye create their own national defense mechanisms, which over time turn into beliefs. So, among Muslims, it is not customary to count children. And when a woman is asked how many children she has, she either does not answer this question at all, or, without hesitation, says - "5". And this answer is connected primarily with the fact that in the understanding of a Muslim, five is a magic number. After all, this figure symbolizes the 5 basic commandments of the Quran. Therefore, the word "five" is considered by a person of the Muslim faith to be a word-amulet against the evil eye …
But in India, mothers often apply spots on children's cheeks or foreheads with mascara to ward off the evil eye …
For a long time, the evil eye was considered a widespread superstition of uneducated people. But the fact that this prejudice is widespread, and persisting throughout the history of mankind and among various nationalities, made even skeptics take this phenomenon more seriously.
However, the famous ancients and doctors in the Middle Ages spoke about the influence of the evil eye on a person. So, Hippocrates believed that one person is able to influence another through the eyes. Avicenna wrote: "Often the soul influences someone else's body in the same way as its own, as, for example, when exposed to the evil eye." Paracelsus, in turn, argued that the evil eye interferes with wound healing.
In the early 90s of the XIX century, a note was published in one of the Moscow newspapers about experiments on a criminal sentenced to death. In these experiments, scientists tried to find out whether the evil eye can affect inanimate objects. For this, the criminal was kept in a cell, where there was a loaf of bread, which the prisoner could see but not eat. The experiment continued for 3 days. And when, after this period, scientists examined the composition of the loaf, it turned out that there are toxic substances in the bread.
As you can see, there is also some connection between the evil eye and the so-called killing gaze phenomenon. Apparently, both of these phenomena are based on the same or similar mechanisms. At least, in both cases, the human gaze carries negative energy. Here are just a few cases that support this version.
For example, once in Canada, a certain hunter Steve McKellan collided almost nose to nose with a bear. Once on the ground, the hunter mechanically put his hand with a knife towards the predator, and he himself, with a look full of hopelessness and at the same time rage, rested into the eyes of the beast, while trying to look directly into the pupils. And the incredible happened: the animal froze for a moment, and then, uttering a loud cry, fell to the ground! The most surprising thing about this incident is that not only a wound, but even a minor scratch was not found on the bear. The researchers concluded that the cause of the bear's death was the release of a powerful bioenergetic impulse from the hunter's eyes, which killed nerve cells in the vital areas of the predator's brain …
And here is another story described in his notes by the Russian playwright Ivan Kupchinsky, who at the end of the 19th century was engaged in the study of anomalous phenomena.
Once Ivan Alexandrovich, while resting in the Crimea, met a man whose behavior surprised Kupchinsky very much. The fact is that this man, passing by the chickens "bathing" in the sand, each time either covered his eyes with his hand, or simply turned away.
- Why are you acting so strange? - asked Kupchinsky.
- Do you know what my eyes are? As soon as I look closely at the bird, it falls dead. Do you want to experience? You are welcome. But with an agreement: you will pay for the bird killed by my gaze to the owner. Choose any.
Kupchinsky pointed to the quickest. The man looked at her intently, and after a minute the dead chicken was already lying in the dust."
But it turns out that you can kill with a glance not only birds, but also people. With such a case, while in India, the famous traveler of the 19th century Dumont met. He personally observed the strange death of an English official, which he later described in his notes.
Once, while hunting, an official Dumont knew killed a very large elephant with incredibly long tusks. Unfortunately, the hunter did not have a special knife for carving out tusks. Having instructed the servants to guard the killed animal, the Englishman, along with Dumont, went to the village for a knife.
When they returned back 2 hours later, to their considerable surprise, they saw an incredible picture: their frightened servants were hiding in the bushes and behind the trees, while several dwarfs confidently cut out precious tusks from the animal.
Dumont told about further events as follows:
- What's going on here? Why don't you chase these dwarfs away? Shouted the European in indignation.
- You can't. They are mullu-kurumbas. To touch them is certain death!
The Englishman was averse to prejudice. With the whip, he quickly dispersed the dwarfs. But one of them - it was the leader - did not run away. He stood calmly and gazed at the European.
The Englishman immediately felt nausea and heaviness in his hand with which he whipped the dwarfs. The next day, towards evening, the fearless hunter's right hand was swollen. Soon he could barely move and complained that he had been poured into his blood like lead. On the 13th day, the Englishman died …"
In general, when talking about the phenomenon of the evil eye, it should be noted that not only mystics, but also representatives of official science were interested in it and are interested in it. So, for example, Academician VM Bekhterev paid considerable attention to the problem of the evil eye, who even devoted a special work to this phenomenon: "Fear of someone else's gaze."
People who are especially sensitive to an unkind glance have been studied for a long time in the laboratory of the academician. As a result of the research carried out, very interesting data were obtained. So, one of V. Bekhterev's patients was so afraid of the influence of a bad look that he wore dark glasses all the time. "In other cases," the scientist noted, "patients experience a kind of magnetic influence of someone else's gaze."
This is how one of Bekhterev's patients described his condition: "A stranger's gaze causes an unpleasant sensation in me, which is expressed in a strong and uncontrollable tightening of the eyelids and muscles of the eyeball and convulsive twitching: the eyes seem to grow cloudy, perceive nothing, the gaze wanders …"
Based on these and other data, the researchers have a well-reasoned hypothesis that the fear of someone else's gaze is a real illness and people suffering from this disease are fully aware of their illness. Research on the evil eye continues and closer to our time. For example, in the 70s of the XX century, American researchers have repeatedly organized scientific conferences and symposia, the main agenda of which was the problem of superstition, including the evil eye.
To explain the phenomenon of the evil eye, several hypotheses have been put forward. So, in one of them, the effect of a “bad look” is compared with the effect of different types of radiation on the human body. Similarly, the adherents of this hypothesis believe, special emanations emanating from the eyes also affect a person. For example, psychics, "irradiating" a person, can cause negative physiological and mental changes in his body, affect the functioning of a certain organ or organ system.
In general, it is possible to assume that there is a certain channel unknown to modern science through which one or another information enters the brain through a glance. And he already with the help of various chemicals has an effect on the whole body. This means that, depending on the information received, individual organs function in one mode or another. And since envy and the desire for evil, being the basis of the evil eye, carry negative information, then it becomes the cause of poor health, illness, and sometimes death.
Thus, the evil eye can be compared to a kind of information weapon, in which both information and energy are concentrated. The information for these weapons is generated by the brain, and our feelings and emotions provide the energy. The eyes and the voice are the instruments for the transmission of these two components. With the help of a glance and a word, a purposeful transfer of information can be carried out, and when certain predetermined conditions are met, it can affect the course of certain events. It is quite possible that nature armed man with this mechanism at the early stages of his evolution. But for what purpose?
Based on all of the above, then with a high degree of certainty we can say that almost any person can be exposed to the evil eye. Therefore, since ancient times, there are methods with which it is possible to determine whether there is an evil eye on a person. So, in Greece, in order to find out whether a person has undergone the evil eye or not, the following test is carried out: one drop of olive oil is dropped into a glass of water. If it does not sink, then there is no evil eye. If it has gone to the bottom, then testing continues: now two drops of olive oil are dripping into the water. And if they merged into one speck, it meant that the evil eye was.
And now a few words about protection from the evil eye. Since time immemorial, people believe that metal objects can protect them from the evil eye: a knife, a nail, a needle. Therefore, probably, it was not for nothing that the ancient Egyptians used keys as a protective means against the evil eye. The most famous amulets is the horseshoe.
Metal ringing, especially of bells and bells, can also ward off the evil eye. Therefore, in order to protect themselves from damage on the road, bells were hung on a horse arch. But since hardly anyone in our time will carry bells with them, then for these purposes it is possible to use an ancient Egyptian amulet: keys. There is a suspicion of the evil eye, do not be lazy and ring them.
A. Bernatsky