I was born in my own house, I am told.
The next day our good old neighbour came over and my mother tell me that she
made this comment:
"Poi baba ghorache nolle borem korun poita" (look how he is admiring the
the tiles of the roof)
That's it. It is believed that my eyes were puffed up so bad that every one
thought I was going to be blinded for life" Then came the local distican and
all was well again.
The same lady came over ( I was 14/15) and admired our papaya tree.
A week later the stem of the papaya tree was split in two in the middle
where we could put our fist through and through.
This is real and I therefore believe heavily in disth. Any one who discards
this as a joke is a fool according to me.
My daughter's legs were admired by one local b***ch and we had tough time
to get her back to normalafte more than 3 years through disticar after going
through varicose vein blah blah from experts in medicine.
Cheers
floriano
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony de Sa" <tonyde...@gmail.com>
To: "Goa's Premiere Mailing List, Estd 1994" <goanet@lists.goanet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 7:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Disth?
In Mapusa, there is a house of Sequeiras' which is called
'dishtikaraguer'.
People used to go there on certain days of the week to have the evil eye
cast out.
My father and other elders of our village used to often recount strange
happenings in the village due to disht. Some women were supposed to be
very
powerful in casting the evil eye. Apparently, some of these women had to
just pass a remark about how nice a person's costume was or how well fruit
had grown and that costume or fruit would somehow be affected. A lot was
perhaps co-incidence or perhaps a conscious search for cause and effect.
If
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