What is a Greek Evil Eye?

Question

I have a piece of jewlery (evil eye) that i don't want people frightened when I wear it. They might believe that I'm evil myself. Does it protect? or Harm?What does it do?

Answer 1

watched a PBS show on Turkey. they made "evil eye" stuff. the evil eye was ALWAYS blue. made me laugh a little because a lot of the western world has blue eyes.

on a practical stance......charms are just charms. they do nothing except hang on your body.

Answer 2

The Greek Evil Eye is merely a object which is believed to ward evil beings or bad luck. But from my own research that I did on spell and curses, the item could protect you from an evil curse,especially powerful ones. So unless you have powerful enemies, I do not think that you should be worried about anything. You can still wear the item as a charm to ward off unwanted attention which is the source of the term Evil eyes from others.

Answer 3

Some people in Greece believe that if someone envies or hates you, they can make you feel dizzy or get you in bad mood, that is called the evil eye. In order to get over it, Greeks put a few drops of olive oil into a glass of water and say a prayer so that the evil eye will go away. A jewelry (usually a necklace) with a little blue eye is supposed to protect you from the evil.

Answer 4

Well this is mostly due to the fact that Muslims are believing the same! Blue eyes are believed to belong to higher beings, thus a real Muslim will hardly be able to marry a blue eyed woman, as he can`t accept a women to be superior to a man. So instead of telling women with blue eyes, that they are superior to man, they just fall into the scare of letting peoples believes that blue eyes are evil spirits... And since 99% of the Muslims have brown eyes, they don`t really care making such a generalization. So I guess it spreads to Greece during the reign of the Ottoman empire in the region...

Answer 5

The evil eye, a glance believed to have the ability to harm those on whom it falls, can come from anyone at any moment, or you can draw it to yourself. The cause can be zealous admiration, envy or even malevolent jealousy. Children and women are thought to be particularly susceptible, while in many traditions strangers, malformed or blue-eyed individuals and old women are most often accused of casting the evil eye.

Belief in the evil eye is ancient and widespread; it occurred in ancient Greece and Rome , and is found in Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu and Christian cultures, being particularly prevalent today in the Mediterranean and Aegean .

The "curse" is usually thought to be unintentional, although it can be deliberate (in southern Italy it is believed that some people - gettatori - are spiteful and deliberately cast the evil eye on their victims). Some folklorists presume that the evil eye belief is rooted in primate biology (as dominance and submission are expressed by gazing and averting the gaze) and relates to our dislike of and discomfort during staring.

In Greece and in Turkey , glass blue eye charms to ward against the evil eye are still regularly sold - very often to be pinned on a baby's clothing. A religiously devout as well as superstitious nation as the Greeks are, they will often wear a protective charm, or mataki, as well as the cross, around the neck.

This is an issue over which Greek church and folklore are both united and separated. They are joined in their belief that the curse of the evil eye (or kako mati) exists, but divided in how it can be warded off or tackled.

The Greek Orthodox Church has recognised the kako mati since the establishment of the faith. The church calls it Vaskania (pronounced Vas-ka-nee-a) and has a special prayer made especially to help cure those who have fallen under the curse.

In talking with members of the church, the Athens News found that a slight division of opinion surrounding Vaskania exists within the Greek Orthodox faith as well. Father Sotirios says that the evil eye is "a form of Satanism, or black magic, which can injure and even kill, " and that it comes mainly from a sense of "acute jealousy, or coveting of others. " Instead, Father Haralambos, from the church of Ag . Paraskevi, took a far more positive stance on it, saying that the evil eye is "an expression of extreme admiration", adding that "it can be compared to putting too much fertiliser on a plant, which will make it wilt rather than blossom." Both agreed that symptoms include dizziness, headache, pain and a loss of one's bearings, and that wearing a cross protects one from the evil eye, whilst wearing a charm can't do you any harm but is not recognised by the church as a form of protection.

Answer 6

it supposingly wards off evil-like if sby is jealous of you-it will protect you-i think if you believe such foolish things then put on a superman costume and then you can fly too!!![haha][also it can protect you from more things!!!]

Answer 7

it isn't evil itself. it wards off evil. it protects you. i have a few. i am also greek!

Answer 8

same as the third eye