To believe people can jinx or cast evil eye on your good news?

[Mummyofmay2020]

E.g sharing very successful results of your son's qualification with a family member who has a son of a similar age not doing very well and their reaction is just a tight-lipped mumble of a congrats.

Or even sharing success on social media and getting bad energy vibes from people instead of genuine happiness.

Then something bad happens not long after.

coincidence?

Poppycock.

Enjoy your good news, ignore any jealousy, stop looking for signs.

Something bad happens? What do you mean?

That's just life - nothing sinister. People have a mix of good times and bad and sometimes people are jealous.

No, I don't think this is a thing, you just have mean friends.

No

I used to live in an Arab country and they were absolutely obsessed with this because so many were it impacted in their behaviour and anything bad was blamed on the evil eye

I found it bizarre as the gossiping was off the scale everyone knew everyone’s business yet pretended few knew theirs

Look up Confirmation Bias. You only notice what confirms your 'theory'. Short version: no, it's nonsense.

How would this even work? No.

Are you serious?

If you are, in the kindest possible way, I think you are suffering from anxiety OP If you've had plenty of knocks and setbacks it is easy to get really worried that good times and successes will be fucked up.

That's not being jinxed though, it's either the result of the larger situation as a whole, or just the chaotic nature of random bad luck, or a mix of both.

No, I don’t believe it.
I do believe that people like that can be emotional vampires and suck your joy out of the situation which may affect how you perceive it afterwards.

No...
Although, honestly, is your ' sharing success' just a bit boastful? People don't like that, and don't always react well.

How do you imbibe ‘bad energy vibes’ over social media?

Honestly, OP, grow up, and stop being so superstitious. It isn’t even your good news ! I mean, it’s yours to share, but you aren’t the one who got the qualification. Does the ‘evil eye’ get you, or the unfortunate with the new qualification?

I believe in it, but I think it could be cultural. The best way to avoid is not share the news with people you don’t think will be genuinely happy for you. I’m not a fan of sharing ‘news’ on social media anyway, it does feel a bit boastful and the people that are close to you will probably know from speaking to you IRL

Logically I should say YABU OP but I know what you mean. If it's true, I set Notre Dame caught fire (lighthearted). A friend cancelled his extravagant party (which I'd been looking forward to) and boasted about going to Paris last minute with his then GF (of whom I was INSANELY jealous at that time). I didn't wish them any bad luck but I was in a very pissy, dark mood...then about 90 min after the announcement the cathedral was in flames. It definitely cast a shadow over the proceedings and they also fell out a lot.

My 20s were quite traumatic in their way though and it has made me more wary about showing good luck off. It likely makes no difference but I feel safer. I suppose that's life though. Weirdly I've also never been able to keep hold of an evil eye talisman- they all disappear! I had a few on my charm bracelet until I gave up & got another charm instead- which stayed.

People who boast get beats. My Hindu grandmother said that whenever someone asked her how to combat the evil eye - take from that what you will.