Asian children sometimes have their faces blackened, especially near the eyes, for protection. For example, some authorities suggest that the purpose of ritual cross-dressing-a practice that has been noted in the marriage ceremonies of parts of India-is to avert the evil eye.
Measures taken to ward off the evil eye vary widely between cultures. Thus, in medieval Europe it was considered unlucky to be praised or to have one’s children or possessions praised, so some qualifying phrase such as “as God will” or “God bless it” was commonly used. More frequently, however, malice toward and envy of prosperity and beauty are thought to be the cause.
The power of the evil eye is sometimes held to be involuntary a Slavic folktale, for example, relates the story of a father afflicted with the evil eye who blinded himself in order to avoid injuring his own children. Those most often accused of casting the evil eye include strangers, malformed individuals, childless women, and old women. Belief in the evil eye is ancient and ubiquitous it occurred in ancient Greece and Rome, in Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindu traditions, and in indigenous, peasant, and other folk societies, and it has persisted throughout the world into modern times.
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