DIAGNOSING AND CURING THE EVIL EYE
A mother takes her little toddler to town and someone sees the child and says, "Oh, how pretty she looks! She is just adorable." The admiring person may gaze overlong at the child. If the mother does not take an immediate pre-emptive step -- spitting onto the child, denying before God that the baby is attractive, or asking the person who praises the child to touch her or spit on her -- the evil eye then begins to operate. By the time the mother and child get home, the child is sick to her stomache and crying. She is flushed, sweaty, and may have diarrhoea. Soon she becomes dehydrated and may be very ill indeed. The mother takes her to a conventional doctor, but "nothing can be done." She finally calls in a local healer -- usually an older woman -- who diagnoses the true cause of the problem and then performs the cure.
Sometime the evil eye is diagnosed from the circumstances: the child was well in the morning, was praised or gazed upon, began sweating and vomiting and the cause is clear. But most often the diagnosis and cure involve a complex series of rituals, which vary by culture. Water, oil, and melted wax -- liquids -- may play a part, or the ritual may center on an eye-shaped and liquid-filled natural object, the egg. Cures, when effected, are usually said to be dramatic, almost instantaneous.
In Eastern Europe, the evil eye is diagnosed by dropping charcoal, coal, or burnt match heads into a pan of water. If the coals float, the child has been given the evil eye.
In the Ukraine, melted wax may be dripped into holy water to diagnose spiritual diseases. If it splatters or sticks to the side of the bowl, the patient is suffering from the evil eye. Secret prayers known only to women are recited and the holy water is used to bathe the victim. The wax is reheated and this time when it is poured into the water, it sinks to the bottom in a solid lump, indicating that a cure has taken place.
In Greece, Mexico, and other places, holy water is given to the child to drink and/or drawn on the child in the form of a cross. If the remorseful perpetrator can be made to spit into the water before the child drinks it, so much the better. In order to avoid direct accusations of having caused such a calamity, a family member may stand outside the church when the supposed perpetrator attends and ask all who pass by to spit into a cup of holy water, thus embarrassing no one.
2006-08-03 15:46:31
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answered by Yah00_goddess 6
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2016-08-28 13:02:29
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answered by polka 4
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My mother-in-law used to do it to my daughter... Clean your baby with an egg... use perfume... and mint... Rub those things together and then after on your baby... They have bracelets to protect babies from ojo... any more questions email me @ Taahine_mei_kolonga@yahoo.com
2006-08-03 15:47:17
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answered by Famous_star 2
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i never heard about ojo, sorry
2006-08-03 15:47:05
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answered by Freesia 5
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Lois: And you know what? I'm gonna take that chance my father never let me take when I was younger. I'm gonna become a model!
Peter: Hey, that's fantastic, Lois! And I'll pleasure myself to your photos.
Chris: Me too!
Meg: Me too!
Peter: Oh! Oh! God! Meg! That's sick! That's your mother!
Meg (shrugs): I'm just trying to fit in.
Peter: Get out! Get out of this house!
(Meg doesn't move. Peter punches wall.)
Peter: I SAID GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE NOW!
(Meg runs out and Peter closes the door.)
Peter: That's a good about your modeling, Lois.
2006-08-03 15:45:06
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answered by Anonymous
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Never heard of it....ojo???,uhmmm?
2006-08-03 15:48:27
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answered by freezing school 5
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Just refuse to believe in such nonsense and go on with your life.
2006-08-03 15:44:52
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answered by Anonymous
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my hubby thinks you're suppossed to do something with chicken bones; but I believe you're suppossed to rub an egg on ya....word
2006-08-03 15:46:28
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answered by mom_a_Joy 2
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Please! is that all u have effecting your life? Ojo? GET REAL MAN!!!!!!!!!!
2006-08-03 15:50:07
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answered by justmedrt 6
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