Author: Lucy M. J. GarnettPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 644
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The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-Lore by Lucy M. J. Garnett
Author: Lucy M. J. GarnettThe Women of Turkey and Their Folk-lore
Author: Lucy M. J. GarnettPublisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-lore
Author: Lucy Mary Jane GarnettPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-lore
Author: Lucy Mary Jane GarnettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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The Evil Eye
Author: Alan DundesPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299133344
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The evil eye--the power to inflict illness, damage to property, or even death simply by gazing at or praising someone--is among the most pervasive and powerful folk beliefs in the Indo-European and Semitic world. It is also one of the oldest, judging from its appearance in the Bible and in Sumerian texts five thousand years old. Remnants of the superstition persist today when we drink toasts, tip waiters, and bless sneezers. To avert the evil eye, Muslim women wear veils, baseball players avoid mentioning a no-hitter in progress, and traditional Jews say their business or health is "not bad" (rather than "good"). Though by no means universal, the evil eye continues to be a major factor in the behavior of millions of people living in the Mediterranean and Arab countries, as well as among immigrants to the Americas. This widespread superstition has attracted the attention of many scholars, and the twenty-one essays gathered in this book represent research from diverse perspectives: anthropology, classics, folklore studies, ophthalmology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, sociology, and religious studies. Some essays are fascinating reports of beliefs about the evil eye, from India and Iran to Scotland and Slovak-American communities; others analyze the origin, function, and cultural significance of this folk belief from ancient times to the present day. Editor Alan Dundes concludes the volume by proffering a comprehensive theoretical explanation of the evil eye. Anyone who has ever knocked on wood to ward off misfortune will enjoy this generous sampling of evil eye scholarship, and may never see the world through the same eyes again.
The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-Lore
Author: Lucy M. GarnettPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404165901
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Journal of American Folklore
Author: Ritual and Belief in Morocco
Author: Edward WestermarckPublisher:
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Beware the Evil Eye
Author: John H ElliottPublisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227905261
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus of Nazareth makes reference to one of the oldest beliefs in the ancient world - the malignity of an Evil Eye. The Holy Scriptures in their original languages contain no less than twenty-four references to the Evil Eye, although this is obscured by most modern Bible translations. John H. Elliott's Beware the Evil Eye describes this belief and associated practices, its history, its voluminous appearances in ancient cultures, and the extensive research devoted to it over the centuries in order to unravel this enigma for readers who have never heard of the Evil Eye and its presence in the Bible. This is the first of a four-volume work on the Evil Eye.
Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women
Author: Isaac Jack LévyPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252026973
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Winner of the Ellii Kongas-Maranda Prize from the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society, 2003. Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women preserves the precious remnants of a rich culture on the verge of extinction while affirming women's pivotal role in the health of their communities. Centered around extensive interviews with elders of the Sephardic communities of the former Ottoman Empire, this volume illuminates a fascinating complex of preventive and curative rituals conducted by women at home--rituals that ensured the physical and spiritual well-being of the community and functioned as a vital counterpart to the public rites conducted by men in the synagogues. Isaac Jack Lévy and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt take us into the homes and families of Sephardim in Turkey, Israel, Greece, the former Yugoslavia, and the United States to unravel the ancient practices of domestic healing: the network of blessings and curses tailored to every occasion of daily life; the beliefs and customs surrounding mal ojo (evil eye), espanto (fright), and echizo (witchcraft); and cures involving everything from herbs, oil, and sugar to the powerful mumia (mummy) made from dried bones of corpses. For the Sephardim, curing an illness required discovering its spiritual cause, which might be unintentional thought or speech, accident, or magical incantation. The healing rituals of domesticated medicine provided a way of making sense of illness and a way of shaping behavior to fit the narrow constraints of a tightly structured community. Tapping a rich and irreplaceable vein of oral testimony, Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women offers fascinating insight into a culture where profound spirituality permeated every aspect of daily life.