What Are Evil Eyes? The evil eye is the name for a sickness transmitted - usually without intention - by someone who is envious. It is also called the invidious eye and the envious eye. The evil eye belief is that a person can harm you, your children, your livestock, or your fruit trees, by “looking at them” with envy and praising them. The earliest written references to the ‘evil eye occur on Sumerian clay tablets dating to the third millennium [...]
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Cat s Eye Gemstone | Chatoyant Chrysoberyl | Catseye History and General Information- Chrysoberyl Cat s Eye The translucent honey-yellow to greenish or brownish yellow chatoyant chrysoberyl which, when cut with a domed surface (cabochon) show a mobile streak of light are called as cymophane or cat s eye chrysoberyl . cat’s eye is a band of light that runs length wise from one end of the stone to the other. This effect is called chatoyancy. In gemology [...]
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A Merry-go-round or ferris wheel in the amusement parks brings out the sweet memories of everyone easily. Here, at beginning of the New Year, I’d like to start by the means of designing a lucky ferris wheel pendant necklace with beads. It makes a fun gift for anyone who loves to make a pendant necklace with beads. Supplies needed for making the tiger eye pendant necklace: 10mm Tiger Eye beads 10mm Turquoise Bead 12mm Glass Bugle Beads Cord End Bead [...]
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The Evil Eye Bead. This thousands of years old talisman continues to fight against the evil eyes all over the world. This tradition still lives in Turkey. The glimmering evil eye beads that are hand made with ancient methods by a very few glass masters, are distributed from Anatolia to the whole world. RASIM ALTMISKARA / Evil Eye Bead Master - The technique we use for nazar boncugu - evil eye bead making is primitive. It s totally hand made. We use [...]
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Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design by Debbie Millman was featured recently. Here s a taste If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve. Do what you love, and don’t stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can, imagine immensities, don’t compromise, and don’t waste time. Start now. Not 20 years from now, not two weeks from now. Now. It used to be one of my favourite pastimes to [...]
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Stippled sterling silver Tiger s eye beads, 5mm diameter Necklace, 5mm wide Lobster clasp FedEx Standard 2-day Air - Free Shipping and Handling (Domestic Only) Your order should arrive 2 business days after shipping if ordered by 3:00pm (ET). Please note that 2-day orders placed after 3:00PM (EST) Friday, Saturday, or Sunday will be processed Monday and should arrive 2 business days after shipping. Saturday, Sunday and holiday delivery is not available [...]
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Photos Blue-beads being sold by a Turkish merchant hang on a tree near a road side shop Jan. 19, 2014, Cappadocia, Turkey. The blue beads, known as the evil eye, are found throughout Turkey and are used to protect against someone wanting to cause harm or ill-will to people, domestic animals, goods or property. The history of the evil eye goes back before Islam emerged in the Middle East, and is seen among the Arabs, Iranians, Greeks, Indians and even [...]
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ECLIPSE - BAILEY S BEADS Near the beginning and end of total solar eclipse, the thin slice of the Sun visible appears broken up into beads of light. These lights are called Baily s Beads after the British astronomer Francis Baily who discovered them. They occur because the edge of the Moon is not smooth but jagged with mountain peaks. When just one bead is visible, the effect is often likened to a diamond ring. ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS Ancient civilzations [...]
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