{"id":61881,"date":"2023-05-30T08:41:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T12:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=61881"},"modified":"2023-07-04T22:05:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T02:05:02","slug":"occult-watch-evil-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/occult-watch-evil-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Occult Watch: Evil Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Times of Israel:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jews call it the\u00a0<em>ayin hara,<\/em>\u00a0Italians know it as\u00a0<em>mal\u2019occhio,<\/em>\u00a0and among Latinos, it\u2019s\u00a0<em>mal de ojo<\/em>. It\u2019s one of history\u2019s most durable forces: The evil eye. But no matter how one identifies it, they should beware of its undeniable power and take steps to defend themselves and their loved ones from it.\u00a0At least that\u2019s what journalist and magical practitioner Antonio Pagliarulo says in his new book, \u201cThe Evil Eye: The History, Mystery, and Magic of the Quiet Curse,\u201d released on May 1.\u00a0\u201cIt is a negative force, a baneful force, unleashed through a look,\u201d Pagliarulo told The Times of Israel. \u201cOne look is all it takes.\u201d According to Pagliarulo, there are three ways to unleash it: A jealous look from someone envious of your success; an unintentional prompting if you forget to ward it off with a precautionary phrase or gesture; and by boasting too much (so watch out, social media users). <em>[SD note: caution, occult means to cure occult curse makes situation worse.]<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"uncategorized\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1685436117\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Occult Watch: Evil Eye\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Times of Israel: Jews call it the\u00a0ayin hara,\u00a0Italians know it as\u00a0mal\u2019occhio,\u00a0and among Latinos, it\u2019s\u00a0mal de ojo. It\u2019s one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-61881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}