The evil eye. An account of this ancient and wide spread superstition

130 THE EVIL EYE CHAP.
3 (Fig. 14), and is a struck medal having in the
centre the eye, surrounded by a crocodile, swan,
serpent, cock, dog, lion, winged phallus, scorpion,
and thunderbolt.
No. 3 (Fig. 15) is from Arneth, Gold- und
Silbermon, S. iv, 96 G.—a medal with eyelet for
Fig. 14. Fig. 15. Fig. 16.
suspension. It has the eye in centre, with crocodile
or lizard, thunderbolt, elephant, scorpion, phallus (as
seen at Pompeii), lion, dog, swan, around it.
No. 4 is from Caylus rec. v. 57, i, 2 (Fig. 16),
also a medal with eye in centre, surrounded by
thunderbolt, lizard, phallus, scorpion, star, elephant,
Fig. 17.
swan, fish, serpent. The medals are
all of silver.
No. 5 (Fig. 17) is an engraved
gem, from the Florence Museum.
It has the central eye, with lizard,
scorpion, frog, bee, serpent, crab,
bee again, and tortoise, surrounding.
No. 6 (Fig. 17) also a gem from
Antike Paste in Berlin, described by
Winkelmann, p. 554, It has the eye in the centre
with tortoise, lizard, scorpion, frog, bee, serpent,
crab, and another bee, surrounding.-"
211 Nos. 5 and 6 have precisely the same objects upon them, though differing
in size.
Therefore one illustration here applies to both.