After all, people in Naples say that there are three types of salt: the rough kind, the refined variety, and the salt used "contro il malocchio" - to ward off the evil eye. The evil eye is the ...

Valli Yak Mangalya was a secret ritual and it was only latterly that people could view it. The main purpose was to ward off the ' evil eye ' from the elephants, Nilames, drummers and those involved in ...

It's said to ward off the evil eye, according to an anonymous second-century BCE poet. Diamonds are believed to represent and bring longevity, strength, beauty and happiness.

Nazar Boncugu is a handcrafted glass bead widely used in Turkey to ward off the evil eye. The beads are fashioned of glass molten in ovens and shaped with thin and thick iron tools to resemble an eye.