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mal de ojo  

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  • Mal de ojo is a Spanish term for the evil eye, used most often in Spain and in Latin American countries of Hispanic descent. It is a folk belief, disease, or syndrome that is represented by an admiring look, a glance, or a voiced compliment and is believed to inflict injury or damage on the person, place, or thing that is the object of the gaze. [Source: Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology; Culture-Bound Syndromes: Mal De Ojo]

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