Question
Amulets with concentric blue and white circles known as nazar are worn by Turkish people to ward off this thing. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this curse, which can also be protected against by hand-shaped amulets known as hamsa.
ANSWER: evil eye [or ayin ha’ra; prompt on envy]
[10m] The use of protective blue coloring on nazar amulets may be inspired by this deity sometimes conflated with Ülgen. This deity, also depicted as a white goose, is invoked several times in the Orkhon Inscriptions.
ANSWER: Tengri
[10h] Kurşun dökme, a Turkish ritual to identify the source of the evil eye, involves pouring this substance into a pan of water to see what shapes form. Similar rituals include a German New Year’s Eve tradition named for this substance that uses the shapes it forms in water to predict fortunes.
ANSWER: molten lead [accept Bleigiessen; accept molybdomancy]
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