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Evil eye: History, Regions & Cultures

The evil eye is a supernatural belief in a curse brought about by a malevolent glare, usually inspired by envy. Amulets to protect against it have been found dating to around 5,000 years ago. It is found in many cultures in the Mediterranean region, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, West Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin…

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Evil eye topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Regions and Cultures as prominent areas in the source structure around Evil eye.

Related topics
231
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
237
Extracted relationships
108
Related term clusters
24
Bridge connections
237

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 170 topics
History · 33 topics
Amulets and other protections · 9 topics
Concepts · 7 topics
Creatures · 7 topics
Around the world · 5 topics

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Overview

History

Around the world

Amulets and other protections

Creatures

Concepts

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Advanced semantic analysis

How Evil eye connects Entity context

The extracted context around Evil eye shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Evil eye → Asia, Authentic, Belief, Book, Europe, God, God's, Greco-Roman, India, Indo-European, Islamic, Masha'Allah, Mediterranean, Muhammad, Muslim, Muslims, Native America, New World, North Africa, Number Another extracted example is Evil eye → Ancient Greek, Aulus Gellius, Bronze Age, Callimachus, Diodorus Siculus, Elder, Greeks, Heliodorus, Hesiod, Illyrians, In Greek Classical, Mesopotamia's, Peter Walcot's Envy, Plato, Pliny, Plutarch, Syria, Tell Brak, Texts, Theocritus. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Evil eye

Top relations

related to Around the world · 29
Evil eye → Asia, Authentic, Belief, Book, Europe, God, God's, Greco-Roman, India, Indo-European, Islamic, Masha'Allah, Mediterranean, Muhammad, Muslim, Muslims, Native America, New World, North Africa, Number
related to history · 21
Evil eye → Ancient Greek, Aulus Gellius, Bronze Age, Callimachus, Diodorus Siculus, Elder, Greeks, Heliodorus, Hesiod, Illyrians, In Greek Classical, Mesopotamia's, Peter Walcot's Envy, Plato, Pliny, Plutarch, Syria, Tell Brak, Texts, Theocritus
related to Amulets and other protections · 13
Evil eye → Depicting, Eyespot, Fatima's, Hamsa, Harmal, Judaism, Kabbalah, Middle East, North Africa, Rosary Pea, Tobago, Trinbagonian, Trinidad
related to Protection from the eye · 10
Evil eye → Acropolis, Athens, Belief, Greeks, In Roman, Many, Peisistratus, Pontus, Roman Empire, Scythia
related to Concepts · 6
Evil eye → Eye, Filipino, Jewish, Matthew, Providence, ThreeScopophobia
related to Creatures · 5
Evil eye → Balor, Dragons, Dungeons, Gorgon, Irish
related to Protective talismans and cures · 5
Evil eye → Attempts, Balkans, Disks, Greek, West Asia
is a · 4
Evil eye → fact, notion of envy and the damage it can cause, supernatural belief in a curse brought about by a malevolent glare, venomous impact from malignant feelings of jealousy and envy of those around us
causes · 1
Evil eye → its victim to become unwell the next day

Important terminology

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Important terminology

evil eye also may used people person protection believed often mal envy de ojo belief amulets one common children objects

Evil eye relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 108 structured relationships around Evil eye. Examples in this analysis include Evil eye → causes → its victim to become unwell the next day and Evil eye → is a → supernatural belief in a curse brought about by a malevolent glare. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Evil eyecausesits victim to become unwell the next day0.90text
Evil eyeis asupernatural belief in a curse brought about by a malevolent glare0.90text
Evil eyeis afact0.90text
Evil eyeis avenomous impact from malignant feelings of jealousy and envy of those around us0.90text
Evil eyeis anotion of envy and the damage it can cause0.90text
apotropaiainstance ofThe protective items referred to by the Greeks with a variety of names0.80text
probaskaniainstance ofThe protective items referred to by the Greeks with a variety of names0.80text
periammatainstance ofThe protective items referred to by the Greeks with a variety of names0.80text
periaptainstance ofThe protective items referred to by the Greeks with a variety of names0.80text
profylaktikainstance ofThe protective items referred to by the Greeks with a variety of names0.80text
phylaktiriainstance ofThe protective items referred to by the Greeks with a variety of names0.80text
onion skininstance ofIngredients0.80text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Evil eye bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Eye, Belief and Ward. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Evil eye
    • Eye
    • Belief
    • Ward
    • Also
    • Person
    • One
    • Used
    • Envy
    • Protection
    • Eyes
    • Often
    • Believed
  • evil eye
    • Eye
    • Belief
    • Also
    • Person
    • Ward
    • One
    • Used
    • Protection
    • People
    • Envy
    • Eyes
    • Often
  • evil
    • Eye
    • Belief
    • Ward
    • Also
    • Person
    • One
    • Used
    • Envy
    • Protection
    • Eyes
    • Often
    • Believed
  • eye of horus
    • Also
    • Person
    • Ward
    • One
    • Protection
    • People
    • Eyes
    • Often
    • Used
    • Common
    • Believed
    • Cultures
  • eye of providence
    • Also
    • Person
    • Ward
    • One
    • Protection
    • People
    • Eyes
    • Often
    • Used
    • Common
    • Believed
    • Cultures
  • around the world
    • Often
    • Protection
    • Person
    • Found
    • Eyes
    • Envy
    • Children
    • One
    • People
    • Jealousy
    • Talismans
    • America
  • amulets
    • Talismans
    • Around
    • Protect
    • Eyes
    • Protection
    • Used
    • Found
    • Include
    • Objects
    • Also
    • Hand
    • America
  • latin america
    • Found
    • One
    • Often
    • Protection
    • Amulet
    • Talismans
    • Greek
    • Around
    • Cultures
    • Include
    • Someone
    • Eyes

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Evil eye, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Evil eye with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Evil eye — Overview · splits 67 ⟂ 171
Evil eye — History · splits 204 ⟂ 34
Evil eye — Amulets and other protections · splits 228 ⟂ 10
Evil eye — Creatures · splits 230 ⟂ 8
Evil eye — Concepts · splits 230 ⟂ 8
Evil eye — Around the world · splits 232 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Evil eye

Nodes238
Edges237
Triples108
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008403
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Evil eye to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Regions & Cultures, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Evil eye · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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