Evil eye in the western HighlandsMaclagan, Robert Craig
Religion
Evil eye in the western Highlands
Maclagan, Robert Craig
Evil eye; Folklore; Superstition
man, 110, 136, 150, 167, 184, 186, 194, 210, 212, 216, 219
_nathrach_, 94
performance, 97
practitioner of, 23, 149
professor of, 149, 172
professors of, 96
_sul_, 94
was kept in the family, 103
woman, 109, 112, 147, 165, 168, 184, 210, 213
Eructation connected with the Evil Eye and witchcraft, 83
Evil Eye, 1, 5, 10, 13, 16, 197, 200, 203, 205, 207, 210, 219
action of an, 55
anybody may have the, 24
avoiding suspicion of, 32
belief in, 1, 12, 20, 45, 88, 154, 163
belief that he himself had an, 33
believed in, 33, 43, 140
believer in the, 8, 129, 158
case of the, 51, 148, 190
cases of the, 146
casting the, 26
cattle more liable to damage from the, 53
churning spoiled by the, 61, 124, 129
counteracting the, 48, 131
cows dying from effect, of the, 56
developed by relation of sexes, 1
different from witchcraft, 89
difficulty of evolving a theory, 67
distinction between possessing an, and doing harm with it, 35
doubts as to the existence of an, 65
effects of the, 7
eggs injured by the, 66
fowls affected by the, 61, 65, 130
having the, 45
horses liable to be affected by the, 61
hurt by the, 82, 97, 113, 161, 166
indirect advantage to those credited with the, 69
is involuntary, 36
is not always involuntary, 40
literary evidence of the, 3
locality of belief in the, 20
modes of expressing the, 17
no visible benefit to possessor, 68
origin of, 1, 7
or witchcraft, 114
people who possess the, may suffer loss, 7
possession of the, ascribed to females oftener than to males, 24
possessors of the, disliked, 24
possessors of the, to be charged to their face, 29, 30
possessors of the, unlucky to meet, 26, 27, 28
reputation of an, 28, 129
scientists, 216
serpent’s stone, a cure for the, 170
stirks more rarely affected than cows by the, 54
survival of belief in, 10, 140
symptoms, 51
their, 195
to be referred to active covetousness, 40
to cure the, 145
to keep away the, 44, 131
water, 157
women, believers in the, more than men, 23
young more liable to the influence of the, 45
Eye, 4, 17, 161, 203
diabolical, 18
envious, 70
had struck, 180
has fallen upon her, 34
my, 47
put his, in her, 83
shall not spare, 45
_Facail_, 94
_airson eolas_, 94
_ceart_, 94
_Fachan_, 171
_Farmad na sul_, 205
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 155
_Fhear mhosach_, 107
_Fiam_, 4
_Fios_, 6, 141
_Fios-achd_, 6
_Fiosrachadh_, or _eolas_, 98
Foal, 222
Folklorists, 2
Formula, 101, 145, 158, 173, 193, 208
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