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If any of these are mentioned, the speaker and/or listener will say b'li ayin hara (Hebrew: בלי עין הרע), meaning "without an evil eye", or keyn eyn-hore (Yiddish: קיין עין־הרע; often shortened to kinehore, קינעהאָרע), "no evil eye". Another way to ward off the evil eye is to spit three times (or pretend to).
A very common display in churches dedicated to Saint Peter. It has also been modernly used as a satanic or anti-Christian symbol. Eye of Horus: Ancient Egyptian religion: The eye of the god Horus, a symbol of protection, now associated with the occult and Kemetism, as well as the Goth subculture. Eye of Providence (All-Seeing Eye, Eye of God)
Balaam and the Angel (1836) by Gustav Jäger.The angel in this incident is referred to as a "satan". [7]The Hebrew term śāṭān (Hebrew: שָׂטָן) is a generic noun meaning "accuser" or "adversary", [8] [9] and is derived from a verb meaning primarily "to obstruct, oppose". [10]
This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade "Know Thyself!" and taught Initiation. He is "The Devil" of The Book of Thoth , and His emblem is BAPHOMET , the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection ...
Romans saw deformity as comical and believed that such images could be used to deflect the evil eye. [32] In Europe, apotropaic figureheads carved onto the prow of sailing ships are considered to have been a replacement for the sacrifice of a thrall during the Age of Invasions by Saxon and Viking sailors, to avoid bad luck on the voyage.
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In 2019, Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Society of Jesus, said that Satan is a symbol, the personification of evil, but not a person and not a "personal reality"; four months later, he said that the devil is real, and his power is a malevolent force.
In the mountains of Ecuador lurked an eight-eyed creature with a “bad temperament.” When scientists encountered the hairy animal, they discovered its bristly personality — and a new species.