Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Superstitions are pretty common. Whether it’s stepping on a crack, putting your purse on the floor or throwing salt over your ...

I began thinking more seriously about protective symbols after noticing how often they were appearing outside explicitly spiritual spaces. They seemed to surface quietly but repeatedly: an Evil Eye ...

In Hinduism, marriage is regarded not merely as the union of two individuals, but as a sacred bond between two souls. The ...

When I was a kid my mom had a dark blue glass nazar — a charm protecting against the "evil eye" — hanging in our kitchen. She got it on a trip to Turkey sometime before I was born. I remember asking ...

Everyone has been given the "evil eye," as it's known, by someone at some point in their life. You may have dismissed it as a harmless glare from someone who wasn’t too fond of you. But you might be ...