Re: The evil eye

Rex H. McTyeire wrote exhaustively.

For myself, the whole concept of 'the evil eye' is something from
superstition, something to giggle about after the weird Southern
European woman did weird motions upon seeing you, or something --
anything -- that provoked the behavior.

I suspect the origin is some sort of infection that clouded/disfigured
someone's eye. These things are routinely cured (and actually, totally
prevented) nowadays in Western nations.

We Americans did hang witches, but that really was a very long time
ago, back when they were still manufacturing those pieces of American
baroque furniture that now can sell for $9,000,000 a pop.