The paper reviews the most popular theories of the Origin and Persistence of the Evil Eye phenomenon from the Antiquity to the present. Researchers are still looking for the origins of the evil Eye as all existing theories ranging from psychoanalysis to brain research fail. The holistic Evil Eye theory also exists, but is valid only in the context of Indo-European and Semitic world views. Science has failed to account for the fact that not all the societies in the world believe in the Evil Eye phenomenon.