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

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286 THE EVIL EYE CHAP.
these examples the cross is upon the globe as well
as above it/^^
On a bas-relief from the Roman Catacombs is a
representation of the Lamb, but instead of the usual
flag He holds a staff, with a ball and cross on the
Fig. 130.—French MS. of fourteenth cent. Fig. 131.
top, precisely like the conventional orb and cross in
the hand of kings and queens/'*'* The historic
gradation of the use, from remote ages to the present
day, of this symbol of life in perpetuity as the badge
of sovereignty, makes it clear, however unwilling
443 Wilkinson, vol. ii. p. 344, gives a number of necklaces made up of
amulets such as we have dealt with. Among these is a large scarab with the
"P cross upon it, just as is seen upon the
Third Persons of tlie Holy Trinity, Figs.
orb in the
130, 131.
hand of
See also
the
Fig.
First
141.
and
*'** These figures are from Symbols of Early and Alcdiccval Christian Art,
by Miss Louisa Twining, to whom I am indebted for kind permission to
reproduce.