What is the Evil Eye?

Watch Dr. Angela Puca’s companion video here! Join our Patreon community!: One-time donations here!: Check out my favorite religious studies books by following this affiliate link to my Amazon page: Bibliography: Lukas Licka, “Approaches to the Extramission Postulate in 13th Century Theories of Vision,” in Medieval Perceptual Puzzles, Brill 2020. Roland Betancourt, “Why Sight is Not Touch: Reconsidering the Tacility of Vision in Byzantium,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 70, Dec 2016. Van de Ven, Zeelenberg, and Pieters, “Warding off the Evil Eye: When the Fear of Being Envied Increases Prosocial Behavior,” Psychological Science, Volume 21, Issue 11. Antioch mosaic: see Levi, The Evil Eye and the Lucky Hunchback,“ Antioch Mosaic Pavements, 28-34 Gadi Sagiv, “Dazzling Blue: Color Symbo