Blog Post: Mal de Ojo # 3

         An interview featuring Arturo Vasquez, speaking with world press was published on you tube on March 3, 2011. This video included footage of women that believed there was no medical doctor who could cure their children of the fever and illness that had taken over their bodies. The women believed that their children suffered from Mal de Ojo and needed to be cured by a spiritual healer or a curandera. They wanted an a curandero to performed ritual using an egg and prayer. In another article by Silvia Casabianca posted March 19 2012, a child showing symptoms of fever, diarrhea, and trouble sleeping can be the signs of Mal de Ojo. And most cases the cure is simply asking the person who gave the evil eye or hex to come and touch the infected child on the head to cure them.  In some incidents adult women have received Mal de Ojo, the illness symptoms are basically the same fever, diarrhea, headaches, and trouble sleeping.  To cure the Mal de Ojo, in an adult women they to will have to receive a touch from the person who gave them the hex or have a curandera perform a ritual.

       Vasquez, Arturo. "Reditus." Reditus. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2012.                       <http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/el-mal-de-ojo-ii/>.  



Casabianca, Silvia. "Curanderos and 'mal De Ojo', an Everyday Reality in Latin America."

 Curanderos and 'mal De Ojo', an Everyday Reality in Latin America. N.p., 19 Mar. 2012. Web. 24 Oct. 2012. <http://www.voxxi.com/curanderos-and-mal-de-ojo-an-everyday-reality-for-many-in-latin-america-vhealth/>.