Comments on: The Origins of the Evil Eye and Horticultural Fertility Cults? https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/21/the-origins-of-the-evil-eye-an-1/ Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:55:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Nathan Myers https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/21/the-origins-of-the-evil-eye-an-1/#comment-540154 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:55:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/07/21/the-origins-of-the-evil-eye-an-1/#comment-540154 Sounds like the expression “symbolic act” has itself leaked away meaning. Is growing a wattle a symbolic act, for a bird? How is this necessarily different from wearing earrings? (Yes, they could be crosses, but Madonna made crosses trendy and meaningless only a few years back.) Let’s not confuse groupthink with real scientific consensus.

]]> By: D. C. Sessions https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/07/21/the-origins-of-the-evil-eye-an-1/#comment-540153 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:50:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/07/21/the-origins-of-the-evil-eye-an-1/#comment-540153

ResearchBlogging.orgIt has become axiomatic that the use of adornment by humans is some sort of symbolic act

ObLogicGeek:

From the sound of it, this point has become a lot stronger than “axiomatic.” It’s not assumed without evidence; indeed, it seems to have a good bit of evidence supporting it.

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