tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991673526352806447.post753261749432799529..comments2023-06-14T18:16:25.385+03:00Comments on Mara Creates: Evil EyeJonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12573913664031319881noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991673526352806447.post-81744380367413792272011-07-15T22:50:04.494+02:002011-07-15T22:50:04.494+02:00....and I know it is a cultural thing, but spittin.......and I know it is a cultural thing, but spitting on a baby? Yuck~Jeaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09005013867632895319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991673526352806447.post-61214482016957426562011-07-14T23:09:37.190+02:002011-07-14T23:09:37.190+02:00I have to agree with Tim's first sentence~I have to agree with Tim's first sentence~Jeaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09005013867632895319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3991673526352806447.post-23453739385680496672011-07-13T16:47:44.184+02:002011-07-13T16:47:44.184+02:00This is just garbage but it is understandable. If...This is just garbage but it is understandable. If a country feels powerless and the people are unwilling to be responsible, they seek reasons and people to blame. See this: <br />Take this snapshot of modern conditions and multiply it throughout the ages: Three thousand years of occupations, invasions, national disintegration and sovereign declarations. Foreigners covet the Greek people. They covet the Greek soil. They compliment it. Then, they take it. I can’t help but wonder if at some level, blue eyes were once indicative of a foreigner. For the most part, the Greeks are not a blue-eyed people. If one accepts blue eyes as signifying ‘foreignness’, then it’s not hard to believe that suspicion of blue eyes equates to a suspicion of strangers. Then consider how an ancient belief can be accidentally reinforced in the modern world: It was only 60 years ago that the Germans came trampling over the Greek homeland. And what colour (at least mythically speaking) are their eyes? <br />It comes from here:<br />http://www.forteantimes.com/features/articles/241/the_evil_eye.htmlProfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02755507955878612632noreply@blogger.com