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  2. Superstition in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    Superstition in Pakistan ( Urdu: پاکستانی توهم پرستی) is widespread and many adverse events are attributed to the supernatural effect. [1] [2] Superstition is a belief in supernatural causality: that one event leads to the cause of another without any physical process linking the two events, such as astrology, omens, witchcraft ...

  3. Chashme Baddoor (slogan) - Wikipedia

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    Chashme Baddoor (slogan) Chashm-e-Baddoor ( Persian, Urdu: چشمِ بد دور, Hindi: चश्म-ए-बददूर) is a slogan extensively used in Iran, North India and Pakistan to ward-off the evil eye (which is called nazar in the region). It is a Persian language derivation which literally means " far be the evil eye ". [1]

  4. Yiddish words used in English - Wikipedia

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    קיינ יינ-אָרע; also pronounced: kin ahurrah): lit., "No evil eye!"; German kein: none; Hebrew עין ‎ ayn—eye, הרע ‎ harrah—bad, evil; an apotropaic formula spoken to avert the curse of jealousy after something or someone has been praised; khaloymes (Yid. כאָלעם): dreams, fantasies; used in the sense of "wild dreams ...

  5. Ifrit - Wikipedia

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    Ifrit, also spelled as efreet, afrit, and afreet ( Arabic: عفريت, romanized : ʿifrīt, lit. ' [ʕifriːt]' ( listen ⓘ ), plural عفاريت ʿafārīt ), is a powerful type of demon in Islamic culture. The ʿafārīt are often associated with the underworld and identified with the spirits of the dead, and have been compared to evil ...

  6. Eye of Ra - Wikipedia

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    The Eye of Ra or Eye of Re, usually depicted as sun disk or right wedjat-eye (paired with the Eye of Horus, left wedjat -eye), is an entity in ancient Egyptian mythology that functions as an extension of the sun god Ra 's power, equated with the disk of the sun, but it often behaves as an independent goddess, a feminine counterpart to Ra and a ...

  7. Islamic dietary laws - Wikipedia

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    Islamic dietary laws are laws that Muslims follow in their diet. Islamic jurisprudence specifies which foods are halal ( Arabic: حَلَال, romanized : ḥalāl, lit. 'lawful') and which are haram ( Arabic: حَرَام, romanized : ḥarām, lit. 'unlawful'). The dietary laws are found in the Quran, the holy book of Islam, as well as in ...

  8. Evil eye - Wikipedia

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    The evil eye is a supernatural belief in a curse brought about by a malevolent glare, usually inspired by envy. [1] The belief in the evil eye among humans has existed since prehistory, [1] [failed verification] and amulets to protect against it have been found dating to about 5,000 years ago. [1]

  9. Nazar (amulet) - Wikipedia

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    An eye bead or naẓar (from Arabic ‏ نَظَر ‎ , meaning 'sight', 'surveillance', 'attention', and other related concepts) is an eye-shaped amulet believed by many to protect against the evil eye. The term is also used in Azerbaijani, Bengali, Hebrew, Hindi–Urdu, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Turkish and other languages.