How can he ward off the evil eye?

A crazy man passing along a road saw an ass's head put up in a kitchen-garden. He enquired: "Since the kicking ass has died, why is skull here on the pole?' The people replied, "O inquisitive one! It is thus put up that it may ward off the evil eye."

When the daft man learnt this, he said, "Ye parcel of idiots! If this ass had been alive, he would have laughed excessively at this folly of yours. Fate has endowed you with asinine brains, which is the reason why you have thus put up an ass's skull. The beast, when alive, could not ward off the blows of the stick from his back, and now when dead, how can he ward off the evil eye?"

[ Fareed ud Din Attar]