evil eye

noun

Definition of evil eyenext
as in pox

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  1. pox
  2. voodoo
  3. curse
  4. spell
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
Definition of pox
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
Definition of voodoo
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
Definition of curse
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
Definition of spell
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