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Hey and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here to give us the evil eye for all the trash we've ever talked about her and frankly it's working because I just blew a tire on the way here to work.

Is that a euphemism or? No, I blew a tire and I lost my checkbook.

You were at the grocery store, they rang everything up, you're standing there looking and they said you have to pay it now and you went oh and you reached in your purse to get your checkbook out.

I reached in my front pocket in my shirt and then you're like does anyone have a pen and 12 people under the age of 75 behind you rolled their eyes inside and they had a pen but it leaked all over my hand.

They gave you the evil eye big thanks to our pal Dave Bruce and the old folks at House stuff works.com for this bit on the evil eye what we in our house called the stink eye.

Yes also thanks to Antonio Paglia Rulo who is the author of a book on the evil eye the evil eye Colin the history mystery magic of the quiet curse.

Dave talked to a lot about this because not only did Antonio write that book his grandmother was an evil eye do her away with practitioner when he was growing up.

That's right if you don't know what we're talking about we're talking about what turns out to be a very very old.

I don't know what you call a tradition what do you what is custom superstition yeah all those things where someone will give you the evil eye someone will shoot you a glance we call it the stink eye again yeah and it's it's wordless you don't have to say a thing you don't have to have a.

What a little dog a voodoo doll all you have to do there's a big there's a quick cello sting going on the background that was happening 100% you got to take that that small string section around with you it means basically well originally I think it was sort of came from jealousy or envy but can also be just someone's angry or they resent you or maybe they're being greedy or something and it's generally always intentional.

But I was surprised to learn from our friend here who wrote that book that it can be unintentional I didn't realize that but I mean I guess I guess if you're coveting something or you jealous of somebody to the left of the person you accidentally look at and give the evil eye that's the best I can come up with for unintentional evil eye.

This goes all the way back to the Greeks and possibly before right oh yeah long before the Greeks but Plutarch was maybe the first person to actually write about it he was a philosopher and historian is everybody knows and he wrote some essays that were collected into something called Moralia and he talked about the evil eye in that his whole jam was that your eyes are a source of energy that shoot out that shoot the energy out into the world around you.

And that reminded me chuck of our stereoscopic episode where that one one of those ancient physicians had their theory was that we see by shooting beams out at stuff and that's how we see and I guess it's kind of what it was based on.

Yeah totally the basically the body fills up with that jealousy or rage or whatever and it clouds the mind and then the eyeballs are right there in front of the mind to sort of display for the world whatever the mind is thinking and in this case it's evil.

Yeah and he goes beep beep when you shoot the evil eye out of your eyes that was Plutarchs taken apparently that was the popular take of it.

Yeah and depending on what culture you are from and your ancestry is sort of about you might have a long rich tradition of evil eye shooters or or blaming everything that happens to you that's bad on an evil eye that was shot your way.

Yeah because it's not just stuff that happens to you directly like injury or illness it can also be things that happen to the things you depend on like your smartphone exploding in your pocket.

You remember what that used to happen?

Yeah they are blowing a tire.

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