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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’.
While urban dwellers consider such myths laughable, the same is not the case in rural Kenya, where the ‘evil eye’ has been blamed for certain deaths.
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