BookLover

Thanks for the comments semtecks. Glad you liked the story.

Yeah, we have people here who are like gypsies. If you don't buy from them, they curse you! Thats whats its called -- cursing. There are stories in India that your enemy can cause you misery if he/she has your hair strand or your nail. It scares the hell out of me too!

I will think about your suggestion about expanding the story. I am not too keen on it since the message I wanted to give out was the tussle between medicine and superstitiion. I think I will include your other suggestion, i will mention that antibiotics wont work for viral fever.

Thanks so much once again.

jean-Paul j.

The only other relationship I can find anywhere in any kind of mythology concerning an evil eye is: the dragon's third eye, it opens up and a laser beem or something shoots out and it can kill you. This is basically a death by unnatural effects, like dying before you are supposed to. The only western thing I can relate the evil eye to is that. Is an evil eye more potent than the dragon's supposed third eye or the evil eye or a strange infection? All sound equally deadly. Even the dragon's real eyes have a deadly and terrifying glare. All I can say to you is that in a lot of fiction the Dragon can possess immense psychic powers; also the dragon is representative of the imagination and therefore directly physically linked (in a metaphoric sense) to the incredible organ called the eye. You can tell so much about someone by just their eye(s). The dragon also posesses freedom, immense strength, and wisdom. A ferocious attacker (when they want to?).

BookLover

I will try to explain what casting an evil eye means in India. I hope I can do that well!

Basically, when someone looks at you with envy or jealousy, they are supposed to be casting an evil eye. You can cast an evil eye on anything - living or non living. People put a black mark on the cheek of an infant to ward off the evil eye. A fruit seller with juicy grapes will put a beautiful red rose on top of the grapes to ward off the evil eye -- so that people look at the rose instead of the grapes and thay way his grapes are safe. When people build a new house, they put a mask of a demon on the facing wall of the house -- so that people who are looking at the house (and thus casting an evil eye) would get distracted and look at the demon instead.

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