The Curse of the Evil Eye

The Wheelchair Historian
4 min readJan 9, 2021

Welcome to my latest blog post. As you may know, I am currently working my way through a series on beliefs surrounding disability. After a couple of weeks focusing on the festive season, I will now continue from where I left off with Bes. This week I will be discussing the concept of the evil eye. While it spans both time and space, I will be mainly focusing on the ancient Greeks and Romans. I occasionally find myself wondering what it would…

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The Wheelchair Historian

Wheelchair user with an interest in history, so I created a blog about history, with a particular emphasis on disability.