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Nazar on a newborn baby's room-door in a hospital in Turkey ( Turkey, 2013 )
gender children evil eye nazar blue pink
Collection : protection & cure
Topic : Mediterranen patterns
Age/Era :
2010-2019

The author Dontbesogullible shared this image on wikimedia commons showing the blue eye on a baby's room door in a hospital in Turkey. The "nazar" that is believed to protect against the "Evil Eye". The believe in the protective power of "the eye" (العين as it is called in Arabic countries) against resentful looks is not limited to Muslim countries but a Mediterranean phenomenon. In Turkey, this symbol - most commonly made out of blue glass - is of unrivalled circulation and applied as a motive to almost everything, from bedlinen to chewing gum.

Interestingly,  here the "nazar" has been gendered -- one version  on the hospital-door turned pink.

  • Uploaded by : Alina Kokoschka| ©
    Dontbesogullible
  • License :Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
  • Date :31/03/2020
  • Link :http://hawass.org/image/665
  • Wikimedia Commons Page : View Image
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