" "Evil-eye and all?"

"Don't you believe in the evil-eye?" I was not perfectly sure whether I did or not, but I said "No." "To believe is not necessarily to be afraid," she added, quickly.

Now, had I believed in the voodoo craft, or in the power of an evil-eye, I should also have feared.

Out of that box something will come," Pipa feels sure (miracles are nothing to Pipa, who believes in pilgrimages and the evil-eye); she feels sure that it will be so.

Fra Pacifico could not bring it down himself, because the wife of the baker Pietro is ill, and he is nursing her." Enrica took the letter, then stared at Giacomo so fixedly, before he turned to go, it haunted him many days after, for fear the signorina had given him the evil-eye.

He approaches her, secretly making horns against the evil-eye with his fingers.