There is very little to be said about this book in the shape of a preface.

The superstition of the Evil Eye is, and has been, one of the most general that ever existed among men.

It may puzzle philosophers to ask why it prevails wherever mankind exists.

There is not a country on the face of the earth where a belief in the influence of the Evil Eye does not prevail.

In my own young days it was a settled dogma of belief.
I have reason to know, however, that, like other superstitions, it is fast fading out of the public mind.