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When evil eyes cause fever and swollen stomachs: Science or superstition?

Experts dismiss the existence of the evil eye and its power to unleash diseases. [Courtesy]

You must have heard of parents who hide, cover or smear their children with lard (back-fat from pigs) to shield them from certain illnesses caused by the stare of people said to have the ‘evil eye’.

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