Pantelleria between Sicily and Tunesia. Locorotondo in S.E. Italy. The Ethnography of Evil Eye on Pantelleria. Diagnosis and cure. Magical Harm in Locorotondo Locorotondese ideas about magically caused as a loose system.
Ideas operate to allow reflection upon the place of various kinds of victims in the moral community.
Shed light on why some of Locorotondo's particular supernatural misfortune beliefs emerge from local collective historical experience. Ethnography of magical harm according to the nature of its sourcewhether emanating from a supernatural being, a human, or an impersonal force. Consider qualities which had to be present in the victim to trigger the community's ascription of particular causes.