More fascinating facts about mirrors.
Sorry I'm a bit of a sucker for useless trivia. But for those interested here's some trivia about mirrors and 'evil eye'. Since in the film Chermin there are references made to 'black magic.'
Wallis Budge wrote, 'Among some peoples the belief is common that 'the little man of the eye,' (i.e the figure seen in the pupil of the eye) can leave a man and enter another person and do harm. . . Of all the things which have driven man in all ages to invent and to use magic, the most potent is the 'Evil Eye.' (from the book Amulets and Talismans).
According to Plutarch (100 C.E) who is a Greek biographer and moralist whose work 'Plutarch Lives' have had a major influence on English and French literature, it's possible for people to injure themselves by staring into a mirror. So for similar reasons, the only way to destroy the mythical basilisk (whose gaze killed) was to hold a mirror to it.
Sorry I'm a bit of a sucker for useless trivia. But for those interested here's some trivia about mirrors and 'evil eye'. Since in the film Chermin there are references made to 'black magic.'
Wallis Budge wrote, 'Among some peoples the belief is common that 'the little man of the eye,' (i.e the figure seen in the pupil of the eye) can leave a man and enter another person and do harm. . . Of all the things which have driven man in all ages to invent and to use magic, the most potent is the 'Evil Eye.' (from the book Amulets and Talismans).
According to Plutarch (100 C.E) who is a Greek biographer and moralist whose work 'Plutarch Lives' have had a major influence on English and French literature, it's possible for people to injure themselves by staring into a mirror. So for similar reasons, the only way to destroy the mythical basilisk (whose gaze killed) was to hold a mirror to it.
posted by zarina at 12:52 AM
1 Comments:
like Keanu Reeves in Constantine, bedroom with mirror flung out the window scene. and how Vampires have no reflection. Snow White's mirror mirror on the wall.
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