This evil eye protection spell uses black cumin seeds, folded in paper, passed over your body and then burned, to draw the harmful energy of the evil eye out of you and destroy it. The evil eye is said to be a negative force which causes harm. Sometimes the evil eye is given unconsciously by others, perhaps from feelings of envy, jealousy or resentment that they feel toward you. Other times, it is directed at you intentionally. Whatever the source, this spell is designed to protect you from it.
Before you cast the evil eye spell
Know that it is not helpful to focus too much on dark forces or negative energies harming you. While it is good for every witch to practice daily protection techniques (this could be as simple as visualizing white light or carrying a protective crystal), it is important not to “feed” negative energies with your attention. If you pay too much attention to them, especially with thoughts tinged with fear, anger, hatred or other strong emotions, it provides a “hook” they can latch onto. So, perform your protective rituals and go about your life, cultivating as many good emotions as you can every day, and resting in the knowledge that you are safe and protected.
What you’ll need
- Paper
- Black cumin seeds (Nigella sativa, also sold as nigella, black seed or kalonji)
- A cauldron or other fire-safe container
- Matches or a lighter
Burn the seeds on a heatproof surface somewhere well ventilated, and stay with the flame until it’s fully out. The seeds can spit and jump as they pop, so a lid or mesh screen resting loosely over the cauldron helps keep them contained.
How to cast the evil eye protection spell
- Cast your circle, and perform any visualizations you usually use to ground, center and balance yourself. If you need to, meditate for a few minutes to calm and clear your mind.
- Put the black cumin seeds inside the paper, and fold it up over them.
- Pass the paper containing the seeds over your body. Start at the top of your head and sweep it down to your feet, then sweep it up over the back of your body, as far as you can reach. Do this three times.
- Once you have done this, repeat the following incantation at least three times, and up to as many times as you want, feeling the energy building up:
Protect from the Eye which has looked on me for harm,
Protect with light that is pure and loving,
I reject the Evil Eye, send it away from me.
While doing all this, visualize the evil eye energy being absorbed by the seeds.
- Next, burn the seeds in the cauldron or fire-safe container. When the seeds start crackling and popping, that is the sign that the evil eye has been broken and destroyed. If you don’t hear any sounds, you may need to perform the ritual on consecutive nights until you do (or consider performing another type of protection spell, since the harming energy may be of another type).
- After performing the spell, whether the seeds crackled or not, perform a white light visualization.
How to do the white light protection visualization
See a beautiful, glowing white light coming down from the heavens and entering your body through your crown. See the energy fill your entire body, until you feel like a glowing being of light.
This visualization is a good one to learn, as it can be performed in any situation where you feel you need some protection. It may seem simple, and if you are new at it, it may feel like you are just imagining the light and that nothing is happening in real life. Keep practicing, and keep faith and trust. Energy flows where attention goes, and even if it feels like merely your imagination, this energy is entering your body, directed by your will. After some practice, you will be able to truly feel this beautiful, protective energy.
Once you have done all this, your spell is complete!
How to cast the evil eye spell for someone else
The spell can also be performed for another person, with their blessing. Pass the seeds over their body instead of yours, and replace “me” with “you” in the incantation.
For an alternative to this spell, you can use this Banishing Spell Kit, which comes with ingredients and full instructions to cast a spell to banish negative energies, situations and people from your life. For powders, oils and candles that also offer protection, browse our Protection & Banishing collection, and to keep a watchful eye of your own close by, explore our evil eye charms and talismans.
Blessed be!
Why the evil eye protection spell works
Why we always explain the why
At Witchcraftisan, we end every spell with the why. This library has been growing since 2011, when it began life as WiccanSpells.info, and its spells were written by practicing witches who knew their craft from the inside. We don’t want you to just follow a recipe. Once you understand why each ingredient, word and gesture is there (the history, the correspondences, the logic behind it), you can adapt any spell to your own life, swap in what you have to hand, and eventually write spells of your own. A spell you understand is a spell you own, and that’s the kind of witchcraft we believe in: informed, adaptable and entirely yours.
The evil eye is one of the oldest fears on earth
Belief in the evil eye is both ancient and nearly universal. It turns up in ancient Greece and Rome, in Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist and Hindu traditions, and in folk cultures across the world. The ancient Greeks called it ophthalmos baskanos, and around the late first century CE the philosopher Plutarch devoted an entire dinner-party debate to it. His guests agreed that envy is the source of its power, that it can be cast intentionally or unintentionally, and, most unsettling of all, that a person could even cast it on themselves.
The Romans fought it with an amulet called the fascinum, from the Latin fascinare, “to cast a spell,” which is where our word “fascinate” comes from. The blue glass nazar bead, still hung in homes from Turkey to Greece, works on the same principle: it’s an eye that stares back, deflecting the envious gaze onto whoever sent it.
Envy literally means “to look against”
Here’s a piece of lore hiding in plain sight. The word “envy” comes from the Latin invidia, from invidere: in (“upon”) plus videre (“to see”). Its earliest meaning was to look at someone with malice, or to cast an evil eye upon them. In other words, the ancients didn’t think of envy as just a feeling. It was a look, and a look could wound. That’s why the evil eye can be cast unconsciously: anyone who looks at you with envy is, quite literally, envying you.
Why black cumin seeds?
Black cumin (Nigella sativa) is one of the most revered seeds in the ancient world. Its seeds were found among the treasures in Tutankhamun’s tomb, and the Prophet Muhammad is reported to have called it a cure for every disease except death. In Egypt it’s known as habbat el barakah, “the seed of blessing,” and it’s a preferred remedy there against the evil eye. Its jet-black color matters too: black absorbs, which is exactly what you’re asking the seeds to do as you sweep them over your body.
Why listen for the pop?
This is where the spell borrows from one of the oldest evil eye rituals still practiced today. In Iran, wild rue seeds called esfand are burned to avert the evil eye, a practice recorded as far back as early classical Persian poetry. As the seeds heat up they pop, and that sound is taken as the evil eye bursting. Families may even say betereke cheshme shur: “may the evil eye explode.” When your black cumin seeds crackle in the cauldron, you’re hearing the same thing.
Why the paper, the sweeping and the number three?
The folded paper is a vessel: it holds the seeds together so they can soak up the evil eye as one, then goes into the fire with them so nothing they’ve absorbed is left behind. Sweeping down the front of the body and up the back draws the paper around you in a full loop, so no part of you is missed. Doing it three times invokes magick’s most sacred number, the number of completion, mind, body and spirit.
Why fire?
Fire is the element of transformation. It doesn’t just remove what the seeds have absorbed; it changes it completely, turning harmful energy into smoke and ash so it can’t drift back to you.
Why the white light afterward?
Whenever you remove something energetically, you leave a space, and nature abhors a vacuum. The white light visualization fills that space with pure, protective energy so nothing else can move in. It runs on the same principle as the warning at the start of this spell: energy flows where attention goes. Attention can feed the evil eye, or it can feed your protection. This spell teaches you to choose the second.
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