Glass Evil Eye Talisman | Hang It Where It Shows
Description
Description
A single blue and white glass eye on a cord, an inch and a half across, meant to hang rather than to be carried. Door frame, rear view mirror, over a desk, above a crib. Anywhere the first thing entering a space meets it.
These are made in workshops around İzmir, on the Turkish coast, at wood fired furnaces. A gather of molten glass is pulled and the rings are laid on in order, dark blue then light blue then white then the black pupil, which is why no two are quite round and why the pupils sit slightly off centre.
The belief itself is one of the oldest documented anywhere. It appears in Mesopotamian texts, in Hesiod, and in a long argument by Plutarch about whether looking at someone could actually harm them. The bead is the answer people arrived at: give the look something else to land on.
What You're Getting
- Material: Handmade glass
- Size: 1.5 inches
- Hanging: Cord, ready to hang
How to Use It
- Hang it where a visitor's eye goes first, not where yours does.
- One at the front door and one in the car covers most of it.
- When it cracks, that is the tradition working. Thank it and hang another.
Wear It With
See the larger Circle of Elephants wall hanging and browse protection and warding and hex breaking and reversal.
Handmade glass, so size, roundness and the placement of the pupil vary from one to the next. No two are identical and none of them are meant to be.