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The book explored the history and traditions surrounding the 'evil eye' curse, including how it was practiced by the author's grandmother.
Big thanks to our pal Dave Bruce and the old folks at HowStuffWorks.com for this bit on the evil eye, what we in our house call the stink eye.
— Episode: Short Stuff: Evil Eye
Episode: Short Stuff: Evil Eye
The book explored the history and traditions surrounding the 'evil eye' curse, including how it was practiced by the author's grandmother.
Big thanks to our pal Dave Bruce and the old folks at HowStuffWorks.com for this bit on the evil eye, what we in our house call the stink eye.
Yes, also thanks to Antonio Paglia Rulo who is the author of a book on the evil eye, The Evil Eye Colon, The History, Mystery and Magic of the Quiet Curse.
And he said, you know, we don't even have like baby showers over here. Like that's considered bad luck to have a baby shower, like you're tempting fate or something like that.
And our book author also, like you mentioned, his grandmother, Paglia Rulo's grandma would keep a bowl of water in her kitchen and poured little drops of olive oil in there and look at the shapes and the patterns that the oil would take.