The Evil Eye or Malocchio - Italian Witchcraft & Paganism

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What is the Evil Eye? Italian charms, rituals and amulets to diagnose, protect, ward off and remove the Malocchio. A Cross-cultural perspective is also offered in contemporary Paganism.

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REFERENCES

Bronzini, G.B. (1981) ‘Malocchio, Invidia, Diagnosi E Terapia Magica Nella Cultura Contadina Lucana Degli Anni Venti’, Lares, 47(2), pp. 265–290.
Dillion, J. and Mallett, P. (2015) ‘“THE EVIL EYE”: LOOKING and OVERLOOKING IN THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE’, The Thomas Hardy Journal, 31, pp. 89–107.
Gagahan, J. (2006) ‘Malocchio Or Evil Eye’, Ambit, (183), pp. 5–8.
Puca, A. (2019) ‘The Tradition of Segnature: Underground Indigenous Practices in Italy’, The Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, (7), pp. 104–123.
Wagner, M.L. (1913) ‘Il Malocchio e credenze affini in Sardegna’, Lares, 2(2/3), pp. 129–150.

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[Ken]

The horns were introduced to heavy metal by the Italian American Ronnie James Dio who got it from his grandmother.

[Coffee_Is_Magic]

In traditional Ashkenazi Jewish communities all over the world, such as in my home country South Africa, the evil eye is very much something that you can 'feel' within the community. My Bobba (grandmother) was particularly concerned about not drawing attention to ourselves & a woman that I once helped take groceries to her car was very concerned about people (and me) not thinking she was so flashy as to drive such an expensive car. It was her son-in-law's. In my life, it has usually been women who would give evil eye & chamsah (hamsa) jewelery & keychains.
Also, if somebody was getting sick often or had a string of bad luck then people (usually women) would say that all the mezuzah (tiny scripture scrolls hung to the upper right of any doorway in the home) should be checked for smudges to letters or other defects. In fact, my mom had ours checked when we ran into some family issues a couple of years ago.
Evil eyes now hang in my boyfriend's business (gift from my family).
I've also found that Chinese cultures have very similar understandings of not drawing attention to your successes & the cost of jealousy on self & others.

[KassandraFuria]

I received an similiar oil ritual in a village at the island of Samos in Greece which worked immediately. I had not believed the existance of evil eye before. But I saw the oil dissolving in water and the pain was leaving my head, which I had suddenly caught on the way to visit a friend, passing some elder women. My friend fortunately
recognized what had happened and knew the ritual .

[Frithogar]

It is fascinating that the evil eye can be cast without any malevolent intention.

[MsTarotD]

Thank you for bringing this important aspect of Italian culture to life..for too long Italian mysticism has been dismissed or left out from mainstream religious practices.

[Salvatoreguglielmo_]

My nonna told me that when she was pregnant a woman came up to her to ask her how far along she was and touched her. My bisnonna saw this and accused the woman of sending malocchio on her womb and it turned into a fight! I have a lot of malocchio stories 👁

I hope to see a video on the spiritual history and folklore of Tarantella and Tarantismo💃

[CemBiliciWriter]

Always so interesting and informative. Being Turkish, I've definitely been around people who believed in the evil eye, especially my superstitious grandmother who would often pray over me because she believed I had been effected by nazar, and a blue nazar amulet was never very far away. I have a few myself, but they're props for a web series rather than serious amulets 😄

[alecombes]

Very interesting video!
I´m from Buenos Aires, and my grandmother (an italian descendant) used to cure "ojeado" with the oil on water and gestures and prayer method that you mentioned. If the oil gathered in one eye-shaped blob, the you had "mal de ojo".
She was ok with teaching anyone, not just blood relatives, but it should only be done on christmas or I belive, saint johns day.

[airngreenwood]

It's so fascinating to hear about other evil eye traditions! In my Mexican-American family, evil eye is usually attribute to lust. When I was in my late teens I started wearing evil eye charms after multiple run ins with creepy old men that left me very ill.

[CrisSelene]

In Romania the evil eye is called "deochi" (ochi means eye in Romanian) and " a deochia" is the verb. The most prevalent protection measure is wearing something red to draw the evil eye away from you. Babies often wear a thin red ribbon around their wrists. There are special incantations, their main purpose being to drive the evil eye back to the person who cast it. Apparently if you yawn while saying the incantation the person you are doing it for is surely afflicted by the evil eye.
Lately I've discovered there are many superstitions that have survived in the Romanian general unconscious from the Ancient Roman times, including spitting to prevent the evil eye. We spit and say " Să nu-i fie de deochi" (meaning something along the lines of "May the evil eye not fall on him/her')
There's also the belief that those with blue eyes are the ones most inclined to cast the evil eye. (I have blue eyes, but apart from a resting bitch face, I've never cast the evil eye on anybody). On the other hand, I remember my grandmother saying that my dad would cast the evil eye really easily, and he has brown eyes.

[HeatherAgosta]

I heard my Sicilian-American family talk about malocchio when I was growing up but I never got a helpful explanation of what it actually was. Thank you for your clear description!

[Grap_Sda]

I have definitely done the oil thing. Though I have never heard of the oils dissolving. More like the oil pooling to form an eye is the one I know. Super interesting thanks as always! My wife's Belarusian family also has a lot of interesting practices around the evil eye. Some are Jewish inspired some are Slavic.

[ifiyeniakamperi]

Hi from Greece! We spit inside our shirt to keep the evil eye away 😂 The special prayer that you say to dissolve the eye has to be passed from relatives male to female or female to male, during the Good Friday. My grandmother taught it to me.

[richardjessiejohnson]

You’re a gift to indigenous peoples everywhere, Gracias for your contributions to paganism.

[mariecait]

I’m sicilian American but everyone that was from Sicily in my family has passed away. Thank you for sharing your story as I wish I could to have these conversations with my grandparents.

[krispalermo]

Double meaning of the glass amulet of the evil eye being blue or green.
From what I learn from my Sicilian grandfather back in the 1980's in the USA.
Blue is clean cool water which gives life on hot days. " May your thirst be relieved."
Green is plant growth which you feed your family and herds on. " May your hunger be feed."

[BailRose]

Love it! I am Siciliana-Calabrese-Americana from Colorada with my Sud Italiana famiglia from Pueblo, Colorado (they were brought there because Rockefeller sent scouts to the poorest regions of Europe to bring workers to the steel mill there) . When my father was born they immediately placed a necklace around his neck of the horns hand gesture pointed down to “keep the devil away” from him. He still has it even though he’s not a believer hahah. As an adult I started using it towards people, I have always wondered the true significance from back home. Thank you :)

[AmbraLuna]

One of my grandfather's aunts (the 7th out of 9 sisters, I was told) was believed to have healing powers. She was long dead before i was born, but someone told me she would do segnature (the cross sign and prayers) on one's hurting body part (most often on the arthritis of other women's hands etc.) and when she was too old to move from home or to receive guests, she did segnature by phone calls. We are from the Marche coast. Bye Angela, very interesting YT channel, complimenti!

[kimgreen]

I saw the evil eye in action at work. Two friends of mine, but not friends of each other, were having a conversation with me. The one came up and showed me that she had won a very nice expensive prize at work that day. I was excited for her, but my other friend was quiet and said nothing. Then next day a misfortune had occurred. She came to work late because she was in a car accident. I knew quickly it had to have been envy that my other friend had casted upon her. I work with Lucifer and I felt instantly to tell her that her misfortune would turn to great fortune as she would gain a new car from this accident. She was skeptical, but sure enough she had gained a new luxurious car better than her last. This is how I rewrite curses. I invoke a "silver lining ". This has worked very well for me for many years. Love your channel!!!❤