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Evil eye in the western Highlands

Evil eye in the western Highlands

by Robert Craig Maclagan

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Author
Maclagan, Robert Craig, 1839-1919
Original Publication
United Kingdom: David Nutt, 1902.
Credits
Susan Skinner, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
Subject
Evil eye
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 70196
Release Date
March 3, 2023
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Transcriber’s Notes
  2. 2.EVIL EYE IN THE WESTERN HIGHLANDS
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.Untitled
  5. 5.INTRODUCTION
  6. 6.EVIL EYE
  7. 7.LOCALITY OF BELIEF
  8. 8.SOCIAL POSITION OF BELIEVERS
  9. 9.DESCRIPTION OF POSSESSORS OF EVIL EYE
  10. 10.OBJECTION TO MEETING AN EVIL EYE
  11. 11.AVOIDING SUSPICION OF EVIL EYE
  12. 12.ACTION OF EVIL EYE INDEPENDENT OF POSSESSOR
  13. 13.EVIL EYE TAKES EFFECT EVEN ON THINGS NOT SEEN
  14. 14.MORAL SOURCE OF THE EVIL EYE
  15. 15.THINGS THAT SPECIALLY ATTRACT
  16. 16.STRANGERS SPECIALLY LIABLE TO BE ACCUSED OF THE POSSESSION OF THE EVIL EYE
  17. 17.PEOPLE SHOULD GIVE WHEN ASKED
  18. 18.SYMPTOMS IN ANIMALS ASCRIBED TO EFFECT OF EVIL EYE
  19. 19.BENEFIT TO THE OWNER OF AN EVIL EYE
  20. 20.DISADVANTAGE TO THE OWNER OF AN EVIL EYE
  21. 21.CONSEQUENCE OF DIRECT PRAISE
  22. 22.A LOOK DOES IT
  23. 23.AVOIDING THE LOOK
  24. 24.CONVERSION TO BELIEF IN EVIL EYE
  25. 25.GIVING AWAY MILK DANGEROUS
  26. 26.SCIENCE VERSUS EOLAS
  27. 27.HURTER AND HEALER
  28. 28.TRANSMISSION OF EOLAS
  29. 29.FORMS OF INCANTATION
  30. 30.FORM OF PAYMENT
  31. 31.THE NECESSITY OF FAITH
  32. 32.PREVENTING EVIL BY BLESSING
  33. 33.PREVENTING BY DISPRAISING
  34. 34.PREVENTING BY ROWAN AND JUNIPER
  35. 35.PREVENTING BY HORSE NAILS AND SHOES
  36. 36.PREVENTING BY A SMALL GIFT
  37. 37.A PREVENTATIVE BY BURNING CLOTHING
  38. 38.PREVENTION BY SPITTING
  39. 39.PREVENTING BY CHURNING
  40. 40.PREVENTION BY PECULIARITY IN CLOTHES
  41. 41.TAR AS PREVENTATIVE
  42. 42.NICKING THE EAR
  43. 43.URINE AS PREVENTATIVE
  44. 44.A BURNT OFFERING
  45. 45.CHARMS. (STRING)
  46. 46.UISGE A’ CHRONACHAIDH (WATER OF INJURY)
  47. 47.STONES AND WATER
  48. 48.IRON AND WATER
  49. 49.WOOD AND WATER
  50. 50.SALT AS CURE AND PREVENTATIVE
  51. 51.MOST SUITABLE WATER
  52. 52.TABOO WHEN IN POSSESSION OF WATER
  53. 53.WATER, WHERE APPLIED
  54. 54.ODD CURES — HONEYSUCKLE CURE — CAT CURE — RUBBING HAIR THE WRONG WAY — CHANGING THE FIREPLACE — THE POWER OF A CHILD’S MUTCH — WHISKY CURE — LEAD DROPPING
  55. 55.AN EYE FOR AN EYE
  56. 56.SHOWING WHO IS THE MISCHIEF MAKER
  57. 57.PUTTING ELSEWHERE
  58. 58.APPENDIX
  59. 59.INDEX

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