A veil that repel envy
In ancient Iraq - the ancient people of Iraq believed that the veil or talisman possessed a magical protective power to bring luck or avoid straying, envy, magic and jinn. The Iraqi would carry the veil or hang it in his house in a specific place - there are a number of materials that were used as a strong shield from evil, including, for example, - Seals - Just as the kings of the Neo-Assyrian era wore the veil, which was in the form of a small metal representing a symbol of the gods, and a pregnant woman also wore it around the neck to protect the child from the evil of Satan - Lamashto –
It seems that these veils, including the seals, represented an extension of the individual personality and an actual alternative to protecting the person - and the Sumerians believed that their priests, who were protected by the gods, could penetrate the secret veils of the unseen and even the evils that threaten the universe. Their mission was summed up by the presence of these forces of effective elements and various signs of evil and subduing them at a time. It is appropriate and used for their benefit - the Sumerians used to place occultations, incantations, and spells to expel the evil, harmful genie and the genie who was causing physical and mental illnesses to individuals. They were also intended to nullify the effect of magic and sorcerers’ actions.
The kings of Babylon used to place statues of the god - Marduk - the chief of the Babylonian gods, in front of the doors of their palaces, while the Assyrians used to place winged bulls on the heads of humans, so that when the demons and evil spirits saw them, they fled and did not enter the city or the house. As for the rest of the people, they used to place a veil over the doors of their homes, according to the direction of the priest. The veil is in the form of a green ceramic vessel, or a flat shoe, or a horse’s hoof, or a goat’s horn, or a small blue doll, or the mother of seven eyes, and other things and talismans, so that if the devils see them, they will cross the house and not enter it. The hanging veil in ancient Iraq includes the blessing of the house, which is a phrase. On the authority of a clay tablet on which cuneiform texts were engraved, written in the Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian languages. He asks a blessing for the house on which he comments, and the best description of it is “Blessing of the House” ----- Razzaq Al-Mulla.
Sources
Bain Al-Nahrain Magazine, Issue 131-132 - 2005 - p. 22 - Article by Mr. Hikmat Bashir
Arab Historian Magazine Issue -2- for the year 1975 AD - p. -57 - Excerpt from the article on the beliefs of ancient Iraqis in magic, divination, dreams and evils - Dr. Sami Saeed Al-Ahmad
Magic in ancient Iraq - PhD thesis - University of Baghdad in 1997 - p. 104 - Riyad Abdul Rahman Al-Douri