Evil Eye In 1939 in Çekmece near Antakya a villa or house was found, containing several mosaics. On one of them a blue eye, attacked by a bird, dog, trident, sword and scorpion was named “Evil Eye”, the House of the Evil Eye was born. Three mosaics are figurative: the Evil Eye one, the Heracles’s struggle with serpents and the Lucky Hunchback one. As for the Evil Eye one: a well-hung bald dwarf advances to the left. He holds sticks in his hands, one forked, it may be a talisman to ward off evil. A text above him means “and you too”, a curse meaning “may it happen to you as well”. In a book I found more extensively: Attacking the evil eye: The eye is pierced by a trident and sword, pecked by a raven, barked at by a dog and attacked by a centipede, scorpion, cat and a snake. A horned dwarf with a gigantic phallus crosses two sticks. Greek annotation "KAI SU" meaning "and you (too)". Roman mosaic from Antiochia, House of the Evil Eye. Hatay Arkeoloji Müzesi, Antakya, Inv.-Nr. 1024
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