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Episode 266: I Want to Half-Believe

Very Bad Wizards

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The Power of the Evil Eye

The power of the evil eye is sometimes held to be involuntary. So if you say like, oh, my daughter is doing so good in college to me, maybe it's my own envy of your family success that will cause me to cast the evil eye on you. "I don't obviously don't say as God wills if I'm talking about something good," he says. 'It probably feeds from the same impulse'

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