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Record 1 2017-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occult Sciences
DEF

A superstitious belief that certain people have the power to cause evil or to harm others by looking at them.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences occultes
CONT

Les sorcières et sorciers, tous ceux qui ont, volontairement ou non, le «mauvais œil» ou la «jettature», peuvent ensorceler ceux qu'ils approchent, c'est-à-dire les livrer aux forces démoniaques. [...] En présence [...] de personnes ayant le mauvais œil [...] il est toujours bon de conjurer le sort.

Spanish

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