What is the Evil Eye?

Watch Dr. Angela Puca's companion video here! https://youtu.be/rfEjXacA5Ko Join our Patreon community!: https://www.patreon.com/religionforbreakfast One-time donations here!: https://www.paypal.me/religionforbreakfast Check out my favorite religious studies books by following this affiliate link to my Amazon page: https://www.amazon.com/shop/religionforbreakfast 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 Symbolism, Kabbalistic Myth, and the Evil Eye in Judaism,” Numen 64 (2017) 183-208. Giacomantonio et. al., “The evil eye: Eye gaze and competitiveness in social decision making,” European Journal of Social Psychology, August 2017.