Evil eye

MAL DE OJO (Evil eye) Digestive (51.18%) Affecting children under the age of three. Produced by a particular look to the child by a person having a "strong or hard look". The symptoms are like gastroenteritis most probably infectious. 

Mal deojo, the evil eye, is an affliction with a somewhat ambiguous... 

The cause and to some extent the cure of this disease of the evil eye are also unconscious. The person whose eyes are evil and whose look causes the often fatal gastroenteric illness is unaware of the power of that look. It is an unconscious power and an unpremeditated act, perhaps the quintessence of envy -- envidia taking on a life of its own, over and beyond intentionality.2... 

The evil eye, envy and fear are not generally recognized as causes of disease in Western medicine. We do not easily believe in such diagnoses and usually label them as naive superstitions. Yet, shamans routinely cure individuals who are genuinely physically ill by working within this frame of reference. In a denotative sense, and quite apart from whatever else it might be, this is psychosomatic medicine, pure and simple, and seems to have more to do with psychiatry than "general practice" -- or does it Where do you draw the line between mind and matter ... 

Hosea specifies that the sacred prostitutes practised their art under the trees, where the shade is good (4.13). Ezekiel speaks of some kind of full-length veil by which they ensnared souls (13.18). The Holy Plant had not be uprooted under cover of darkness, lest the act be seen by the woodpecker of Mars (perhaps a folk-name for the red-topped Amanita Muscaria), or the sun and moon. The sexual power of women was vital to the mystery cults and accounts in large measure for the attractiveness of cuts to women from the earliest times. It also has much to do with the antagonism towards sexuality generally and the distrust of women displayed by the laser Church, and the readiness with which supposed witches were hounded by Christians until quite recent times. The telepathic control over people s minds exercised by such females, known the world over as the evil eye, came originally from this ability to arouse men s passions. 

It is difficult to know how such superstitions get started, but most can be traced to our iimate desire to find causes for the calamities that befall us. When there is no ready scientific explanation, we invent one. That s why the Black Plague was blamed on witches and Jews, the waxy pallor of tuberculosis victims was blamed on vampires, and migraines were blamed on the evil eye. 

People need to identify cause-and-effect relationships, even when they don t exist. Today, instead of blaming our ailments on witches and evil eyes, we blame them on chemicals. The person afflicted with a headache may identify the culprit as a fabric-softener sheet, because she read all about it on the Internet. Another may blame cleaning agents for his health problems — or pesticides or cookware or microwave ovens or antiperspirants or cell phones. Perhaps, however, the real cause of their suffering is the bizarre medical experiments they underwent at the hands of aliens who kidnapped them and wiped their memories clean. 

Clarke s reference to eye-beams relies on an understanding of an active eye that emits pneuma to unite with particles projected by the object. This way of seeing also resembles the neo-platonic theory of love - a concept that popular texts, such as The Problems of Aristotle, rendered in elementary form the louer sendeth co[nt]inuall beames of the eie towards that which he loueth. And those beames are like vnto arrowes, because the louer doth dart them into the bodie (sig. Lyv). The evil eye depends on the same principles -vapours are emitted from one person s eye to penetrate the victim s eyes. 

We have been following your career with great interest, but you see, Mr. bin Laden, we are concerned that you will never become a world-class villain like ourselves. Face it, you wear a dress you live in a cave and—wt will try to put this delicately— you lack savoir faire. And your colorless henchmen are bringing you down. You are not Bond material but, as we see it, you have potential. We believe that, with our guidance, an upstart like yourself may someday hope to face a world-class nemesis like 007. We d like to give you some friendly advice, one evildoer to another. Think of it as the Fab Five—Julius, Auric, Ernst, Emilio, and Kamal— giving you an Evil Eye for the Bad Guy makeover. 

He was sitting there in the guilt of the fact that the evil nature of the Jews and their numberless deceits, especially their sensuous lust for women—of which fact he had daily proof in the dark folds of their eyes and their swarthy skin—all were the reflections of his own desires with which he had invested them. . . her eyes had made a Jew of him and his monstrous desire was holding back his denial. 

But, alack, by what evil fate shall I say it came to pass, that discord should divide the Royal Family. That differences and strife should there be every day increasing The prince had red bushy hair, threatening eyes, a stem look, almost a bullock s neck, rough skin and a rapacious hand. To his playfellows always cmel, but to his sister he bore a mortal hatred. But the Princess had a face even to be envied by the Nymphs, her hair was white, but surpassed by her fairer neck, her eyes were sparkling and her countenance cheerful towards all, unless when she, as she was almost always,... 

Water and steam are nearly always present in most chemical processes. Their physical properties are generally well understood. Process perils are sometimes related to the infamous deeds of water and steam. The thrust of OSHAs Process Safety Management Law of 1992 focused on the processes that handled a list of 140 highly hazardous chemicals as well as processes that contained an over 10,000 pounds (4,540 kg) of flammable liquids or gases. Even after those chemicals are handled with higher levels of mechanical integrity and additional scrutiny, we will still need to keep our eye on water and its sometimes evil twin, steam. 

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