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

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high above the head. There were two head-dresses
ornamented with cowries, charms in themselves ;
but above each head-dress there were two antelope
horns standing up conspicuously. The central object
of the exhibits at Paris from Senegal was a typical
house, ornamented at the four corners of the roof
with large cow's horns turned upwards. From
Fig. 75.
Tahiti was exhibited an idol, with two large horns
on its head carved in wood ;
moreover, this figure
had the right hand raised with palm exposed.^^''
Fig. 75 is from Peru,^"^ and the horns on this
mask are of much the same character as those found
in Tahiti (Fig. 53).
22* In the British Museum there are two masks from Ceylon. That for a
man has a large boar's tusk by way of horn projecting from each side. That
for a horse has one long upright horn, like that of a unicorn.
325 Peroti et BoHvie, Ch. Wiener, Paris, 1880, p. 649.