 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 646 pages
...Eye of an enemy or infidel. Passages from the Koran are painted on the outside of the houses, globes of glass are suspended from the ceilings, and a part...attract attention, and divert a sinister influence.' (Millingen's Observation» on an Antique Bas-relief, on irhich the Evil Eye, or Faicinum, it represented... | |
 | 1838 - 518 pages
...Eye of ah enemy or infidel. Passages from the Koran are painted on the outside of the houses, globes of glass are suspended from the ceilings, and a part...attract attention, and divert a sinister influence.' (Millingen's Observations on an Antique Bat-relief, on trhich the Evil Eye, or Fatcinum, is represented... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 516 pages
...Eye of an enemy or infidel. Passages from the Koran are painted on theoutside of the houses, globes of glass are suspended from the ceilings, and a part...designed to attract attention, and divert a sinister inlluence.' (Millingen's Observations on an Antique Bas-relief, on which the Evil Eye, or Fascimtm,... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 306 pages
...eye of an enemy or infidel. Passages from the Koran are painted on the outside of the houses, globes of glass are suspended from the ceilings, and a part...in " Minor Morals," vol. ip 24: "It seems some have been so ™—~ — s to note that the times when the most hurt are particularly when the parry envied... | |
 | Joseph Roberts - 1844 - 662 pages
...Passages from the Koran on the outside of the houses, globes of glass are suspended from the ceiling, and a part of the superfluous caparison of their horses...attract attention, and divert a sinister influence." I think he must be a very ingenious man who can satisfactorily account for this identity of opinion... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 520 pages
...eye of an enemy or infidel. Passages from the Koran are painted on the outside of the houses, globes of glass are suspended from the ceilings, and a part...authority of Virgil: — "Nescio quis teneros oculus mibi fascinat agnos." Eel. iii. The following passage from one of Lord Bacon's works is cited in Minor... | |
 | John Brand - 1855 - 520 pages
...eye of an enemy or infidel. Passages from the Koran are painted on the outside of the houses, globes of glass are suspended from the ceilings, and a part...influence." That this superstition was known to the Eomans we have the authority of Virgil:—" Nescio quis teneros oculus mihi fascinat agnos." Eel. iii.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1855 - 400 pages
...the Koran are painted on the outside of the houses, globes of glass are suspended from the ceiling, and a part of the superfluous caparison of their horses...attract attention and divert a sinister influence." But in ' Hobhouse's Travels' we find a still more remarkable account of the existence of this superstition... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 856 pages
...the Koran are painted on the outside of the houses, globes of glass are suspended from the ceiling, and a part of the superfluous caparison of their horses...attract attention, and divert a sinister influence.' Hobhouse, in his Travels, bears equally conclusive testimony to the prevalence of this superstition... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 856 pages
...the Koran are painted on the outside of the houses, globes of glass are suspended from the ceiling, and a part of the superfluous caparison of their horses...attract attention, and divert a sinister influence.' Hobhouse, in his Travels, bears equally conclusive testimony to the prevalence of this superstition... | |
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Nothing," says Mr. Dallaway, in his Account of Constantinople, 1797, p. 391, "can exceed the superstition of the Turks respecting the evil eye of an enemy or infidel. Passages from the Koran are painted on the outside of the houses, globes of glass are... 
