Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

“The amulet used against the Evil Eye...was called BASKANION or PROBASKANION, and FASCINUM, and it was usually in the form of the PHALLUS. As children were specially liable to be attacked by the Evil Eye, models of the phallus were hung around their necks....Other names of the phallus amulet were mutonium, scaevola, and Satyrica signa.... ” [Emphasis in the original] Another object used as protection was the “homed hand” or the “devil salute.” Budge writes that “a closed hand with the first and fourth fingers outstretched represents the ‘horns of the Devil.’

Nevertheless models of such a hand were worn as amulets. A closed hand with the first finger alone outstretched was in some countries regarded as a sure protection against the Evil Eye.” Cabot remarks: