In "A Perfumed Scorpion: The Way to the Way," Sufi master Idries Shah tells a personal anecdote:
"My wife and I went to Morocco when she was expecting a child. She went to the shop and looked at Kaftans, and very much liked one of them. The price asked was far too high, and so we left the shop, only to be pursued down the street by the proprietor, was was now trying to give it to us for nothing. I asked him why he should give it away like that. 'Don't you understand?' he shouted, 'What kind of people are you? A woman in that condition, when she covets something, puts the evil eye on anyone who doesn't give it to her! I don't want the evil eye!' I said 'That is absolute nonsense, and you know it!' 'I know it is, but what can I do? You see, I believe it!' "
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