Years ago I spent 6 weeks in Turkey with a family. The mother, in
particular, believed that the evil eye beads would protect a person
from the evil eye, though I'm not sure what that means. They had a
little girl who was just walking, and they fastened an evil eye bead
or charm with a safety pin on the back of her shirt where she couldn't
reach it. Years later, when I had my first child, they sent me an
evil eye bead charm, too. When I started making lace a few years ago,
I found an evil eye charm on a bracelet they had given me. It's now
hanging on a spangled bobbin.
Ruth
Dubuque, Iowa, USA where it's cold with snow flurries
I have many of the Turkish eye beads that I collected while on
holiday but
do not know if they are supposed to protect you against the evil eye
or
whether they are supposed to be just lucky, have heard different
descriptions of what they are meant to do from the Turks that sold
them .
The only problem with them is that many of them are not the right
shape to
use on bobbins, but I love them anyway.
Sue M Harvey
Norfolk UK
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