 | 1813 - 574 σελίδες
...immediately laid in the cradle, and loaded with amulets ; and a small bit of soft mud, well steeped in a jar of water properly prepared by previous charms, is...and consequent upon the admiration of an incautious spectatdr. The Evil Eye is feared at all times, and supposed to affect people of all ages, who by their... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1833 - 614 σελίδες
...immediately laid in the cradle and loaded with amulets ; and a small bit of soft mud, well steeped in a jar of water, properly prepared by previous charms, is...eye is feared at all times, and supposed to affect persons of all ages, who, by their prosperity, may be the objects of envy. Not only a Greek, but a... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 σελίδες
...small bit of soft mud, well steeped in a jar of water, properly prepared by previous charms, is »tuck upon its forehead, to obviate the effects of the evil...eye is feared at all times, and supposed to affect persons of all ages, who, by their prosperity, may be the object^ of envy. Not only a Greek, but a... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 546 σελίδες
...immediately laid in the cradle and loaded with amulets ; and a smail bit of soft mud, well steeped in a jar of water, properly prepared by previous charms, is...and consequent upon the admiration of an incautious sliectator. The evil eye is feared at all times, and supposed to affect persons of all ages, who, by... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 852 σελίδες
...tlio ¡nJmrratio» of an LucnutitKis npectator. The Evil Eye is feared at all tii«esv and eupposcd <to affect people of all ages, who by their prosperity may be the objects of «ivy. Not oply • a. Greek, but a Turkish woman, on seeing n stranger look eagerly ether child, will... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 886 σελίδες
...immediately laid in the cradle and loaded with amulets ; and a small bit of soft mud, well steeped in a jar of water, properly prepared by previous charms, is...eye is feared at all times, and supposed to affect persons of all ages, who, by their prosperity, may be the objects of envy. Not only a Greek, but a... | |
 | Francis Lieber - 1851 - 544 σελίδες
...immediately laid in the cradle and loaded with amulets ; and a small bit of soft mud, well steeped in a jar of water, properly prepared by previous charms, is...noxious fascination proceeding from the aspect of a person i fied, although invisible demon, and consequent upon the admiration of an incautious spectator.... | |
 | William Jones - 1880 - 778 σελίδες
...immediately laid in the cradle and loaded with amulets, and a small bit of soft mud, well steeped in a jar of water, properly prepared by previous charms, is stuck upon its forehead, to * "The objects that are fastened up as means to keep off witchcraft," says Plutarch, in a remarkable... | |
 | William Jones - 1898 - 618 σελίδες
...themselves. " obviate the effects of the evil eye. This fascination is feared at all times, and is supposed to affect people of all ages, who by their prosperity may be the objects of envy.i Not only a Greek, but a Turkish woman, on seeing a stranger look eagerly at her child, will... | |
 | Courtenay Frederic William Dunn - 1920 - 336 σελίδες
...and Mohammedans, when a child is born it is immediately loaded with amulets, and a bit of soft mud, properly prepared by previous charms, is stuck upon...its forehead to obviate the effects of the evil eye. The skin of a hyena, the kernel of the fruit of the palm tree, necklaces, the key of the house door,... | |
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When the child is born, it is immediately laid in the cradle and loaded with amulets ; and a small bit of soft mud, well steeped in a jar of water, properly prepared by previous charms, is stuck upon its forehead, to obviate the effects of the evil eye... 
