Since @wakeupkitty called my attention to this article, here I am:

The portuguese territory was once the berth of what we call the mossarab culture, which was a period when all three Abrahamic religions cohabited peacefully in self governing cities (although with some political connection to the Califate in Cordoba) to the South of the River Tagus, which is to say, about half modern Portugal.
From that period we inherited Arabic technology, words and some cultural traditions, one of them was that of the evil eye, in which we believe fervently, only we say Cruz, credo!, which is a Christian origin expression that roughly represents the same as the arabic Masha'Allah and we use the simbol of a clenched fist with the thumb between the index and middle finger to ward it off. We also call it olho gordo, or fat eye when it's someone that we believe is evil and transmits that malignancy just by looking at things, or at us, as if they carried a curse along with them.
As we also tend to accumulate anti evil eye amulets. Next to my bedroom door, I have this one, which is originary from Constantinople (Istambul), Turkey.

Also, for us, the evil eye is synonim with envy and someone who wishes us harm. We don't have Jinn in our culture, but we do have demonic posessions and angels.

Lovely idea to bring that photo together with the text.

Cheers,

Pedro

PS: In the second sentence, you should replace chases it for chases you.