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The permitted places are usually the rooms of the house where the sick one spoilt by the evil eye lies; then the stable where the animals need to be cured, the graveyards and woods for doings, the running waters,
especially the places near the mill where the doings must be 'the hatreds' and others must be 'washed'.
For example the permitted place and altogether necessary place for an evil-eye charm is the fire place. The performer needs
embers, a cup, virgin water, that she must bring then, the threshold, the holes of the benches as we can see in a good -for-everything charm.
You take virgin water in a half litter cup and you smooth in
it three embers and count from nine to one making the sign of the cross with the knife when getting to 1 you say the charm; you start with a prayer the one you know best. After the pray you say:
"What 99 charm doers do,
I do it too. (three times)
What 99 charm doers say
I say it. (three times)
If he is spoilt by the evil eye of a wife,
Of a housband, of a youngster or of an old man,
By green eyes, brown eyes, blue eyes,
May their eyes burst out like the embers,
If it is of a girl,
May her plaits fall out,
If it is of a wife,
May breast cleave,
If it is of a husband,
May his balls cleave.
99 ghosts,
99 wraiths,
99 wraiths,
99 wraiths,
If you don't go away,
We will cut you with the sickle,
We'll rip you with the knife,
We'll cast you over the seas,
For you to perish and perish again,
Like the foam on the sea,
Like the spit on the lame,
Nine little girls,
With nine little brooms,
With nine little wiping clothes,
Went their way on the lame
Till the middle of the way,
Where are you nine little girls going?
With nine little brooms,
With nine little wiping clothes?
We are going to the Holy Father's Church,
No, you are not going there,
Because the Mighty God,
Woke up in the morning,
And cleaned this place well,
Swept it well,
But come to me,
Because here is the mist of an evil eye,
Mist of nine sorts,
Mist of nine kinds,
Don't cleave it,
Don't pick it,
Don't pierce it,
But you go through fire and water,
So that (name) stays clean,
And lightened,
Like the holy virgin Mother,
Like she is not now in the morning,
Let her not be spoilt in the evening,
If she is touched,
Or paralyzed,
By a wind coming from the woods,
By wind coming from the waters,
By wind coming from the fields,
Let it go to the Deserted Mountains,
So that she stays clean,
Just like the holy Virgin Mother."
The whole spell must be said three times. It
is very hard to understand what the performer says. Everybody must keep silence. Nobody is allowed to move across the room. The only one who moves and speaks is the charm performer.
After the first charm the water is passed through three holes of the bench counting from 9 to 1 then 0. The sick person is washed with the reverse of the hand from the lower parts of the body to the upper ones saying:
" Just like you can't wash with the back of the hand,
Let no one harm (name),
If someone has done,
By witchcrafts may they turn
Over the one who did them
And over the one who brought them."
The charm performer blows over the place where she has stayed, spits and goes to another place. The remaining water is cast over the hinges of the door three times and the rest of it is thrown on the roof of the house and the cup is laid upside down on the threshold. The knife is put near the cup.
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