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- Title
The Evil Eye as a Folk Disease and its Argentine and Ibero-American Historical Explanatory Frame.
- Authors
Molina, Anatilde Idoyaga
- Abstract
To understand Argentine and Ibero-American evil-eye lore, one must consider that during colonial times, Spanish official medicine defined the evil eye as a disease. This knowledge filtered down to sections of the populace in Argentina and Ibero-America, generating a new folklore. At the same time, European immigrants brought with them popular European evil-eye lore, enabling a synthesis between Ibero-American and European popular traditions and endowing the Argentine belief with its own characteristics.
- Subjects
ARGENTINA; EUROPE; EVIL eye; EUROPEAN folklore; IMMIGRANTS; CROSS-cultural studies
- Publication
Western Folklore, 2016, Vol 75, Issue 1, p5
- ISSN
0043-373X
- Publication type
Article