The talisman (called just eye in Greece) isn't a cure but protection. Garlic —real or a ceramic one— may also serve as protection. The bad eye (bad as in perso

The talisman (called just eye in Greece) isn't a cure but protection. Garlic —real or a ceramic one— may also serve as protection. The bad eye (bad as in person) is something like a mini curse, usually caused by envy. It is generally accepted that some people cause it more easily than others, whilst others are incapable to cause it. It may have to do with the character of the person. The cure, or antidote is an encantation which would roughly translate to ”eye gouging”. The encantation is also interesting. It is believed that each encantation can only be owned by one person and should be kept secret or will lose its power. The owner may transfer it under certain conditions and usually old people transfer it to younger ones. It is monks that usually are able to create new encantations and pass them to the rest of the society. Also some encantations can only be passed to one sex. Although it sounds crazy, both evil-eye (or eyeing) and eye-gouging seem to work but it probably is a placebo like effect. :)