Or rather on “the eye.” In my family, the eye, cheshm in Persian, was not evil; it was shur, salty.  A salty eye could be directed at anyone, either intentionally or unintentionally.  Although often springing out of Envy’s poisonous bosom, it could also be transmitted quite innocently, in passing, from a half-sincere compliment bestowed out of thoughtless civility. Every so…