evil eye

Recent Examples of Synonyms for evil eye
Noun
  • Witnesses recall seeing sufferers with so many pox on their faces that their features were no longer identifiable.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Importing live animals from Greece was banned after a separate disease – goat pox – was detected last October.
    Harriet Marsden, The Week UK, theweek, 7 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • In real life, Laveau was a herbalist, midwife, and Voodoo practitioner in New Orleans, and Tituba was an enslaved Native American woman (not a Black voodoo practitioner as she is often wrongfully depicted).
    Ivana Rihter, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2024
  • New Orleans, Louisiana Known for its supernatural roots and connection to voodoo, New Orleans takes Halloween celebrations to the next level.
    Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Regardless of whether one sees it as a triumph or a curse, there is no reason to expect that low fertility will be reversed in any major way.
    Vegard Skirbekk, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Just one episode after breaking her family’s curse, Alice lies dead on the ground, and the witches—and especially Teen—are not happy.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • My pulse kept racing; my mouth went dry and prickly; dizzy spells came on.
    George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The idea was that the ballad is a spell that opens the road, but, really, the ballad is the thing that motivated Billy’s subconscious to create the spell that creates the road.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024

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“Evil eye.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/evil%20eye. Accessed 18 Nov. 2024.

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