ATHENS VLOG: THE EVIL EYE | GREEK CULTURE | MIKROLIMANO PIRAEUS || LIVING IN GREECE
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- čas přidán 6. 03. 2024
- Kalispera paidia! Join us today for a walk through the SEF park to Mikrolimano in Piraeus, Athens. We are talking about the Greek culture, especially when you have a baby in Greece. The evil eye and the Greek blue eye. There are many Greek baby traditions in Greece that we don't have in Scandinavia. We also have a conversation about Greek phrases. There are many more phrases to use for different occasions in the Greek language than in Swedish/Norwegian. Spring is in Athens!☀️ Kalo mina!🇬🇷
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hi girls
When you say to a pregnant woman kali leuteria it means that you wish her to have a good birth that will free her body from the baby she was carrying inside her...for 9 months
Another wish is : na sas zisi ...who means i wish your baby to have a long life ... becouse many years before many babies die for flow or child diseases...
As for the evil eye which is normally called Vaskania in Greek .. it is the bad energy that some people can transmit to you ..
If someone takes such a bad energy, his head and eyes usually hurt... and of course depons etc. don't do anything for you
There is a specific methodology to get rid of bad energy, you just have to apply it to someone who knows...
And you now : the greek orthodox church has a specific wish for Vaskania ( bad eye) ..So the official church believes in bad energy of some People ...
The end of the orthodox church wish ( its to long ) about evel eye:
I am not afraid of evil, when you are with me. that you are the God, my ruler, mighty ruler, prince of peace, father of the age to come". Yes, Lord our God, have mercy on your creature and save your servant from all harm and influence of oppression, and above all protect him from all evil. embassies of the most blessed, glorious Lady of our Theotokos and eternal Mary, of the light Archangels and all your Saints. Amen.
You must not have any complains ...
I do my best 😂😂😂😂😂
Hi!😃 Thank you so much for sharing this! very interesting😊💙
You two are great! I enjoy your videos a lot!!
Thank you so much😃❤️
We have something similar in Turkey too!! Love to our Neighbours 😍😍
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Ftou- ftou from me for Alexandros . I'm sure he will be profesional in Media in future.😀😀😀
Thank you🥰🥰🥰
the evil eye can be really dangerous especially to the person who does the prayer because he sucks the evil eye......my nan was saying give me ur jumper and then she was tying a knot in my sleeve she was saying some hocus pocus she was starting to yawn and i was feeling so much better but the superficial element was that the knot was moving by itself when i had the evil eye few centimetres on the left or right!!!!!! scary
We also have a good time with your walks and remember our own moments with the strollers...
So to learn a few of our customs (we have many).
1) The eye (mati), or vaskania, has to do with the submission of electromagnetism, from one brain to another. It usually does not come from bad thoughts but from admiration for the other (a cute baby, a nice woman/man, jealousy etc.). Some people - like me - easily accept this submission and soon feel unwell (heaviness in the chest or headache), others are not affected at all. In the first case there are some arcane words that repel this strange energy from the person who has received it, this is called "xematiasma / disentanglement". These arcane words are always conveyed from a woman to a man or vice versa, never to the same sex. The blue eye is supposed to drive away this bad energy, that's why they wear it on babies who are vulnerable, and it comes from Ancient Greece. Also, the people believe that by making the sign of the cross, you drive away "evil". Finally, by imitating spitting, we spit at the devil and evil spirits in the eyes, dispelling them.
2) When a woman is pregnant, the usual wishes are:
a) with good = all goes well b) good liberty = give birth / be freed easily c) with a pain = I wish your pain is one or none
3) When the baby comes into the world, everyone wishes: Long live (the baby) for you ! This wish lasts from the time when in Greece (and elsewhere) there was a high infant mortality (1700 - 1900 AD) mainly in the villages and so people gave birth to 8-10 children so that half of them would live!
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Περνάμε και εμείς ωραία με τις βόλτες σας και θυμόμαστε τις δικές μας στιγμές με τα καροτσάκια...
Λοιπόν για να μάθετε λίγα από τα έθιμά μας (έχουμε πολλά).
1) Το μάτι ή μάτιασμα, ή βασκανία, έχει να κάνει με την υποβολή ηλεκτρομαγνητισμού, από έναν εγκέφαλο σε έναν άλλον. Συνήθως δεν προέρχεται από κακές σκέψεις αλλά από θαυμασμό προς τον άλλον (ένα χαριτωμένο μωρό, μια ωραία γυναίκα / άντρα κλπ.). Μερικοί άνθρωποι - όπως εγώ - δέχονται εύκολα αυτην την υποβολή και σε λίγο αισθάνονται αδιάθετοι (βάρος στο στήθος ή πονοκέφαλο), άλλους δεν τους επιρεάζει καθόλου. Στην πρώτη περίπτωση υπάρχουν κάποια απόκρυφα λόγια που αποποβάλλουν αυτην την περίεργη ενέργεια από το άτομο που την έχει δεχτεί, αυτό λέγεται "ξεμάτιασμα". Αυτά τα απόκρυφα λόγια, μεταφέρονται πάντα από γυναίκα προς έναν άντρα ή το αντίθετο, ποτέ στο ίδιο φύλο. Το μπλέ μάτι, υποτίθεται πως διώχνει μακρυά αυτήν την κακή ενέργεια, για αυτό το φοράνε στα μωρά που είναι ευάλωτα, και κατάγεται από την Αρχαία Ελλάδα. Επίσης ο λαός πιστεύει πως κάνοντας το σημείο του σταυρού, διώχνεις το "κακό". Τέλος, με την μίμηση του φτυσίματος, φτύνουμε τον διάβολο και τα κακά πνεύματα στα μάτια, αποκυρήσοντάς τα.
2) Όταν μια γυναίκα είναι έγκυος, οι συνηθισμένες ευχές είναι:
α) με το καλό = όλα να πάνε καλά β) καλή λευτεριά = να γεννήσεις / ελευθερωθείς εύκολα γ) με έναν πόνο = εύχομαι ο πόνος σου να είναι ένας ή καθόλου
3) Όταν το μωρό έρθει στον κόσμο, όλοι εύχονται: Να σας ζήσει (το μωρό)! Αυτή η ευχή κρατάει από την εποχή που στην Ελλάδα υπήρχε μεγάλη θνησιμότητα στα βρέφη (1700 - 1900 μΧ) κυρίως στα χωριά και έτσι ο κόσμος γεννούσε 8-10 παιδιά για να ζήσουν τα μισά!
Hi!😃 Thank you so much for your comment! Very interesting😊💙
Boy and Girls you are amazing.Ftou-ftou.
Kali lephteria =καλή λευτεριά , literally mean ''good Liberty'' ,but even ''the goddess of childbirth be good with you''.
From ancient Greek goddess Eleftho - Ελευθώ , the goddess of childbirth , and from the name of the goddess comes the word Eleftheria = Liberty.
Ancient custom that still exists.
Thank you so much🥰❤️
You are correct ,"me ena pono" means exactly what you thought . They are wishing the baby is born with only one pain. You were right about all the evil eyes things too. "Kali lefteria" is wishing you to be free of the burden-pain of pregnancy
Thank you so much for clarifying that!😃❤️
Hi κορίτσια 😊 I found this video very relaxing. Great filming, you captured many different scenes and finished it with great food. Have a great weekend, love from Melbourne ❤️🥰❤️
Γειά σου!😃 Thank you so much💙 Have a lovely weekend🥰
You girls are something else!!
Love so much your greek accent!!😂😂
I really enjoy your channel and can't wait for the next episode!
Well done!!
Greetings from Patras.
Thank you so much!😍😅 We appreciate it a lot💙
both of you are great.Keep going
Thank you so much😃❤️
Spitting and the Evil Eye. A young baby is perfect and susceptible to the evil eye. When you spit, no longer perfect undesirable from the evil eye. That's how my grandmother explained it to me. She would recite the prayer to remove it.
Thank you so much for sharing this😊💙 and thank you for watching🥰
1st!
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Athens wives Suggest common phrases for formal speaking with employees in Greece
Προτείνετε κοινές φράσεις για επίσημη ομιλία με υπαλλήλους στην Ελλάδα
Предложите общие фразы для официального разговора с сотрудниками в Греции.
The "eye" is blue because usually matiasma cones from people with blue eyes.Cone to think about it that would be a good business to sell to Greeks in Sweden and Norway hahahaha 😁
Thank you for your comment😃 haha yes maybe that would be a good buissines😅🧿
Να ζήσετε! - για γάμους (ευχή για το ζευγάρι που παντρεύτηκε--> plural)
Να σας ζήσει! - ευχή για το μωρό
Ευχαριστούμε for the clarification🥰
@@athenswives τίποτα! My pleasure!
kebab is lamp
Thank you for clarifying that😊💙
Do you talk to the baby in Norwegian, Greek, or English?
Καλή ερώτηση !!!
We speak both Swedish and Greek at home🇸🇪🇬🇷 Then Helene speaks to him in Norwegian😊🇳🇴 So this baby will learn many languages☺️
That's amazing. You will have very smart kids for teaching them more than one language. I apologize for my confusion. For some reason, when I heard you called yourselves "Scandinavian," I assumed you both were from Norway. But now I understand better. By the way, I have a friend from Sweden living here in Mississippi.@@athenswives
@@athenswives keep it up with all the languages, especially you language.. to a child they are just words.
Many languages its to bad... you don't kmow who you are !!!! Alex born in greece and he must speak greek...
03:06 - At least the grandmother she did not do the Phtou or Ftou and spit three times on the baby!
- Mati is the eye and 'Matiasmeno' is like you said 'jinks-it !'
- Kali leuteria means separation from the baby and also good birth
- Na sas zisi is plural and the polite form of Na sou zisi (singular) means that the baby should have a long life It is from the old days when the baby and often the mother did survive the birth or died for child diseases.
Hi!😃 Thank you so much for explaining all this!😊 We appreciate it💙🇬🇷
THE EVIL EYE
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Spitting on something you Love is a method to keep the Devil/ Bad Luck from touching it
A funny superstition to be sure but very Greek
Thank you so much for explaining this😊💙🇬🇷
Πρέπει να μάθετε την διαφορά
Ευχαριστούμε💙
Εκεί που είσαστε κοριτσια δεν είναι Αθήνα αλλά ΠΕΙΡΑΙΑΣ εντάξει??!!??!!
Εντάξει!☺️
There is no evil eye there is no souvlaki... 😮 there is tzatziiki and kalamaki...😅😅😅
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@@athenswives have fun in carnaval of patra this days ... dont miss that...🥳🥳🥳🥳🥵🥵🥵🥵👹👹👹👹👹👻👻👻👻👻🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤏🏼🤏🏼🤏🏼🤏🏼🤏🏼🤏🏼🤏🏼