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

5° THE EVIL EYE CHAP.
presentations of food, such as terra-cotta bread, ""^
and other articles placed with the dead for his use
and sustenance.
Maspero in his lectures on the " Egyptian Hell "
(see a long notice in the Times of August 22, 1887)
Fig. I.
763
Fig. 2.
Pig.
dwells upon the reasons which induced the ancients
to provide their dead with arms, food, amulets, and
slaves, for it was thought the dead would be liable
to the coi'^ode as well as the living. Besides all these
things the dead were furnished with a funereal
'*' Maspero, ArcJutol. Egyp. p. 245. Of the ancient Greeks, we are told that
in some "places they placed their infants in a thing bearing some resemblance
to whatever sort of life they designed them for. Nothing was more common
than to put them in vans, or conveniences to winnow corn, which were
designed as omens of their future riches and afiUience" (Potter, Architol.
Gnec. vol. ii. p. 321). We are further told these "things" were not real but
imitations.
7Ba Y\g. I is from Wilkinson, Aiic. Egyp. Figs. 2 and 3 from author's col-
lection.