Short of taking a trip to Istanbul, your best bet for finding the evil eye in the Valley is at Bernie's Beads. Owner Bernie Lawitz specializes in international beads, including the nazar variety.

Nazar Boncugu is a handcrafted glass bead widely used in Turkey to ward off the evil eye. The beads are fashioned of glass molten in ovens and shaped with thin and thick iron tools to resemble an eye.

Greeks, Romans and Ottomans were among the first to incorporate the evil eye into jewelry and beads. And wearing evil eye jewelry, again, is believed to protect against any negative energy thrown ...

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They believed that certain people, especially those with blue eyes, had a stronger ability to cast the evil eye—hence the blue beads and talismans we see today! The ancient Romans also adopted ...