Re: [Cz-L] Photo collections and the Bad Eye.

In Czernowitz the evil eye was definitely active.
But the way it worked was this: If someone praised you,
without saying: "kenein Ahore" or spitting three times:
tfu, tfu, tfu, something bad was sure to happen to you.
At age three, I myself was the victim of such an occurrence:
Someone came to visit my mother and said something
complimentary about me. I was playing outside, but I immediately
ran into the kitchen, where a large cast iron stove stood right
opposite the door. I was running too fast and in order to stop myself
from falling, I put out my hands. The left hand came to rest against
the door of the stove and was badly burned.
They put my hand into cold water, then into egg yolks, then into oil,
all the time saying: that woman gave her the evil eye.

Moral of the story: Do not look at our photographs on Ehpes and praise
anyone's looks.

Mimi

On 5/19/11 12:34 AM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:

> In Czernowitz I learned how to beware of a Bad Eye - Ein Ahore.
> When somebody was in a fix the diagnosis was : Bad Eye.
> How you contracted the bad eye ? By vision !
> You met somebody on the street and he fixed you - you got it.
> If he had the Bad eye. You never knew.
> Only later , when it was too late !
> It could influence your health , your finances or pregnancy.
> Anything unexplained and bad was atributed to the eye, the Bad one.
> Avoid exposure ! Keep in the shadow, walk at the edge of the sidewalk.
> Tody they would have a detector like the radar speed alarm in your car.
>
> Now , we are encouraged to put our pictures on the Ehpes for the
> public view.
> Our faces exposed publicly for all to see! By millions !
> A feast for the Bad eye .
> This is just a warning , you do whatever you feel is right.
> When I send pictures in it is always somebody elses.
> Much safer.
> Why play with fortune ?
>
> Hardy
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