evil eye

curse believed to be cast by a malevolent glare, causing many cultures to create measures against it
Organization belief Q1020115
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evil eye

Summary

evil eye is a belief[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of belief entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,114 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • evil eye's image is recorded as Blue eyes.JPG[3].
  • evil eye's instance of is recorded as belief[4].
  • evil eye's instance of is recorded as superstition[5].
  • evil eye's instance of is recorded as culture-bound syndrome[6].
  • evil eye's GND ID is recorded as 4007526-6[7].
  • evil eye's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85046021[8].
  • evil eye's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 119686329[9].
  • evil eye's IdRef ID is recorded as 027700062[10].
  • evil eye's subclass of is recorded as curse[11].
  • evil eye's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00575811[12].
  • evil eye's Commons category is recorded as Evil eye[13].
  • evil eye's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01lcd_[14].
  • evil eye's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX546590[15].
  • evil eye's Iconclass notation is recorded as 13D1[16].
  • evil eye's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0192425[17].
  • evil eye's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • evil eye's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[19].
  • evil eye's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • evil eye's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[21].
  • evil eye's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[22].
  • evil eye's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23].
  • evil eye's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[24].
  • evil eye's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/evil-eye[25].
  • evil eye's different from is recorded as Q19176733[26].
  • evil eye's FAST ID is recorded as 917249[27].

Why It Matters

evil eye ranks in the top 6% of belief entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,114 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . DSM-IV-TR. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . National Diet Library. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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