Growing up in a Jewish household my family also believed in the evil eye very strongly. At least the older generation did. When I was born grandparents and aunts and uncles would not look at me for fear of giving me the evil eye thus putting some sort of curse on me. They couldnt look at me until I was 6 mos. old. Guess its a common european superstition but I cant :
remember what the yiddish term for evil eye was.
Can anyone help me out with that term? I will lay awake nights until I can think of it!! :