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

372 THE EVIL EYE chap.
Fig. 183 is in the Naples Museum, and there is
another in BerHn. Comparison of these illustrations
will convince the reader that, whatever their pur-
pose may have been, they generally convey the
same idea, and are as much alike as any of the
examples of the ancient Mano Pantea or of the
modern Ci77iaruta. The material is the same, and
Fig. 182.—From Photogravure in Mr. A. Evans's Tareiitine Terra Cottas.
the size, about 5 inches in diameter, is nearly alike
in all : the various objects represented upon them
all are not raised but rather deeply sunk.
A glance is sufficient to show that many of the
objects represented are the same in each, though their
position upon the respective plaques varies. In the
London and Naples tablets they seem to be arranged
in lines vertically, and more or less horizontally ;
in the