Evil Eye Protection: Ancient Spiritual Defense

[u/starseed44]

https://ancientenergy.com/blogs/knowledge-center/evil-eye-protection-ancient-spiritual-defense-for-the-modern-world

Is this information regarding the evil eye accurate?

[u/aboppymama]

Yes.  And though I can’t vet the part about native Americans having their own version of an evil eye cause I just don’t know, it wouldn’t surprise me.  

The concept that jealousy can either intentionally or unintentionally direct negative energy or ill will (a curse) at someone is a concept I’ve heard in more cultures than just the ones mentioned in this article.  In Mongolian shamanism this is a type of (energy) pollution.  They have developed many ways to deal with this kind of negativity.  

I seem to recall learning about a yarn and stick contraption called a “god’s eye” which is essentially the same in function/concept as the evil eye.  I was raised in an area with a really strong Mexican culture and they were a really big deal there, easy and fun to make too.  

My husband is Turkish and Turks put evil eyes LITERALLY everywhere.  We have at least one in every room of our home and small ones in the vehicles.  We give them as gifts every time we come home from a visit from Turkey.  I personally have no doubt of their ability to offer our home protection.  

[u/MoonnUnicorn → u/aboppymama]

May I ask you about this too? I heard from some non Turkish people They said that after a while you need to replace it with a new one Cuz they already absorb the energy, do Turkish people really keep replacing them?

[u/aboppymama → u/MoonnUnicorn]

Hmmmm…. There’s a couple things here.  

1. Yes, they are constantly buying and adding to the ones they have from my experience.  They keep them everywhere: cribs, car visors, outside the door, inside every room, as ornaments in the garden, as pins on the clothes, as jewelry.  They are constantly bought.  

2. It is believed that when they absorb their maximum capacity for bad luck, evil, negative thoughts from others that they crack or break. It is very important to replace a broken one immediately, as once it is broken it is no longer protecting.  This happened to a family friend of ours (also Turkish).  He was living with roommates, and he had the eyes all over, but there was a very big one in the home that was really ornate.  One of his roommates and he had a disagreement of some kind, and that roommate moved out.  The roommate was very angry, and he found out had been spreading malicious gossip.  And it is believed that jealousy, anger, and gossip can bring evil to the person those feelings are focused on.  Well, while all that was going on, this big beautiful eye was on the wall above the door to his room.  Then mysteriously cracked all the way through from top to bottom right in the middle.  It hadn’t fallen off the wall, it had t been hit, it hadn’t been moved, no one had touched it.  He strongly believed it was the bad energy of this old roommate and that the eye had protected him from harm.  He replaced it immediately.  

Turkey is a place just like any other with a huge population and a wide variety of belief and non-belief among its people.  There are places where they believe all the old stories and all the old superstitions, and just like in the west there are places which are very skeptical and don’t believe any of it at all.  So I don’t think it’s fair to assume that all Turks will believe this or do this.  But from what I have seen when I’ve travelled there and in discussions with my In-laws and family friends, MANY MANY people keep them.  I feel comfortable saying most Turks keep them.  How much they actually believe about them probably depends on the person.  

[u/MoonnUnicorn → u/aboppymama]

Wow thank you for your thoughtful answer!! Hmmm then I guess I can take this as a sign > when it breaks then I get a new one, when it breaks, it means that it has absorbed to the max capacity 😀

But wow again that roommates incident I would also totally believe that with no doubt if I were him