[144.3] Hertz, 19. Compare the Bushman stories of men changed into stone by the glance of a maiden, “probably,” as Dr. Bleek remarks, “at a time when she would be usually kept in strict retirement.” Bleek, 2nd Report, 14; Lloyd, Report, 10.
[144.4] Pliny, Nat. Hist., viii. 32; Athenæus, v. 64; Barthol. Angl., Steele, 76.
[144.5] Instances are collected by Hertz, 21; Mestres, 226; Bérenger-Féraud, i. Superstitions, 253; Forsyth, 425.
[145.1] Dorsey, Cegiha, 215.
[145.2] Boas, Report on N.-W. Tribes of Canada, Brit. Ass. Report (1895), 565.
[145.3] MacLennan, ii. Studies, 353, citing Morgan, League of the Iroquois.
[146.1] Dorman, 284, citing Smith’s Brazil.
[146.2] Prov. xxiii. 6; Mark vii. 22. See also Ecclesiasticus xiv. 8-10. Socrates alludes to the superstition, Phaedo, xlv.
[147.1] A curious example of the prevalence of the superstition is to be seen in the Lateran museum. A painting by Crivelli, dated in 1482, of the Madonna surrounded by several saints, represents the Bambino as wearing a necklace of pearls, from which, inlaid into the picture, depends a common phallic amulet of coral. Even the Holy Babe, it seems, needed a magical protection against the Evil Eye.
[147.2] Students desirous of pursuing the subject of the Evil Eye are referred to the elaborate compilation of M. Tuchmann on La Fascination in Mélusine; Mr. F. T. Elworthy’s valuable work; Hertz, op. cit.; Grimm, iii. Teut. Myth., 1099; and Andree, i. Ethnog. Par., 35.