On 3 August 2010 05:17, Venantius J Pinto <venantius.pi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There was a disthikarn in Byculla, Mumbai. It was a awesome place with tons > of candles and there was a strange air to it, a very morose space. Her > daughter continued after her mother passed away. I was taken to the mother, > since I was a frightened child--living in fear, having witnessed/imagined > strange stuff. The next trip was to the gravedigger, Joao the Peddo of > Batim, about whom I wrote about some time back. Then I was told to cool it > on GN way back around Easter. > > The belief in the evil eye was WIDE. WWW IIIIII DDD EEEEE. > People also felt helpless. Those dots on the faces of babies, and infants; > the bangles, pengtyan, are all talismans. > > In homes it was dhoomp, salt, chillies. Also alum if I am not mistaken. > After burning and the child being "anointed" the "burnt offerings" were to > be thrown far away. > > ++++++++++++ > venantius j pinto > > > From: Frederick Noronha <f...@goa-india.org> > > To: Goanet <goa...@goanet.org> > > Subject: [Goanet] Disth? > > > > It's called disth in Goa. But I didn't realise the belief in "evil eye" > > was so widespread in different forms across the globe: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_eye > > > > > > ------------------------------ > RESPONSE: I have a pair of beatiful 'Egyptian Eye' cuff links - believe it or not, bought from Harrods! -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. * * * How were the 1950s, East African Goans and British Overseas Citizenship linked? Which Kenyan-Goan was one of the world fastest sprinters in the 1960s? What did the 1878 London-Lisbon treaty mean to Goa? Find your answers in Selma Carvalho's *Into the Goan Diaspora Wilderness*. Buy from Broadways Book Centre, Panjim [Ph +91-9822488564] Price (in Goa only) Rs 295. http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/ * * *
