Whether you are a fruit vendor or shop-owner or vehicle owner, warding off the evil eye is common. Lemon and chillies are hung to prevent it and bring you good luck. Apparently it originated in ancient times when people took long journeys and took along lemons and chillies to ward of hunger and thirst.
In this photograph the lemon and red chillies can be seen underneath the wooden hand-cart of a banana vendor in Mumbai.
Here you seen them hanging on a hook underneath the signboard of a small shop in Kolkata.
This Pune scooter owner has made a thick garland of the lemons and chillies, using green chillies instead of red. I guess it all works because it's all in the minds of the believers.
In this photograph the lemon and red chillies can be seen underneath the wooden hand-cart of a banana vendor in Mumbai.
Here you seen them hanging on a hook underneath the signboard of a small shop in Kolkata.
This Pune scooter owner has made a thick garland of the lemons and chillies, using green chillies instead of red. I guess it all works because it's all in the minds of the believers.
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