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Performing the remedy for the evil eye. Bermeo. Anton Erkoreka.

This post is complementary to a previous one (7.4.2017) on this blog dealing with the evil eye.

There were a number of sanctuaries in the Basque Country specialised in the treatment of the evil eye which have in recent years lost relevance due to the fading of religious beliefs. The best known have been Our Lady of Incantations in Arbeiza, close to Estella in Navarre; Roncesvalles, also in Navarre; the parish church of Olaberria in Gipuzkoa; Barria in Álava, until the nuns moved away in 1973; Urkiola in Bizkaia, where “the sick, possessed, spiritually haunted and cursed” were taken, St Peter’s in Zarikete or St Felicísimo’s in Bilbao. (more…)