Protection from the Evil Eye-Through Nazarbutto:A Symbolic Analysis in Anthropological Perspective

In the present study entitled “Does Nazar Butto Protect from the Evil Eye? A Symbolic Analysis in Anthropological Perspective”an attempt has been made to know how people associate nazar butto with the evil eye. The main objectives of this research were to find out how people perceive Nazar Butto symbolically and how the people associate nazar butto with evil eye. A nazar butto could be any object which the people think protects from the evil eye. This research would help to know about how villagers perceive superstitions when it is entered into the phase of development in terms of education level. The sample size consisted of 6 participants from village 23GB Anbalianwala, District Faisalabad, collected through snowball sampling technique. Case-study research method was used as a technique of data collection and tools used for data collection includes; in-depth interviews and observation. The results indicate that the villagers believe nazar butto is something that protect from the evil eye or the bad evil. It consists of different objects as black handi (bean pot), black shoes, a piece of black cloth, and black ribbon but they mostly practice black handi for that purpose.