La Llorona was a lady that had thrown her children into the river because her new lover did not like her children around. In order to keep her lover satisfied she killed her children, but that brought her misery, and when she died her soul was sent back from the heavens as a sign of punishment. She was to wonder near all river s until she found the lost souls of her children, and according to legend on the coldest and darkest nights of the year some people are unlucky and hear La Llorona crying and calling her children. El mal de ojo is another thing that I have dealt with in my life. You see, a baby does not have the mental strength to fight off the evil eye, and evil eye does not necessarilly come from brujas.
Any person can give el mal de ojo from simple admiration of the baby.
When a person says what a beautiful child, or when they stare at the baby and don t caress the face or simply hold it the baby feels discomfort , and it is said that a baby can die if he or she is not cured properly. There are several ways to stop this jinx. If the family does not know who gave the bad eye then they can perform what is called una barrida con un huevo, when the barrida is over the egg is to be cracked and put inside a glass full of water, this is supposed to show an air bubble on the yoke if the child had mal de ojo. This ritual usually hlps stop the child s discomfort. A way to prevent mal de ojo is with un ojo de venado, this is a small charm that is suppossed to have the power of the deer s eye, and it will stop the evil eye.