Against Evil Eye (Contra Mal de Ojo) w/ pheromones

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Roll it on the wrists and behind the ears each morning before going where envy runs high: work, family gatherings, a new venture.
• Touch it to a red string bracelet or an eye bead to renew the charm.
• Anoint the inside of a baby’s crib frame or a pet’s collar, not the skin, as a family protection.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Wear it after an uncrossing or cleansing bath to seal the work.
• Anoint a protection mojo bag carried in a bag or pocket.

A Simple Working

• Begin with a cleansing: a shower finished with a basin of water and a pinch of salt poured from the head down.
• Light a white chime candle.
• Roll the perfume onto your crown, the back of your neck and both wrists.
• Touch the vial to a blue eye bead or a length of red string.
• Ask aloud that the eyes of envy pass over you and yours.
• Tie the red string on your left wrist or carry the eye bead, and let the candle burn down.
• Refresh the perfume each morning.

Pairs Well With

• A blue glass eye bead, the classic Mediterranean charm against the glance.
• Red thread, worn on the wrist against the evil eye in many cultures.
• Rue, the herb most used in Latin American limpias for mal de ojo.
• Jet, carved into tiny fist charms for babies in Spain and Puerto Rico.
• An egg, for a traditional limpia before you begin wearing the perfume.

What You Receive

Against Evil Eye (Contra Mal de Ojo) perfume oil with pheromones, amber in colour, in a 1/3 oz roll-on vial, blended with essential oils and pheromones, with a small talisman steeped in the perfume.

Origin & Lore

This is a roll-on perfume in the tradition of Latin American spiritual perfumes, named for the work it is meant to do: Contra Mal de Ojo, against the evil eye. Mal de ojo is the harm said to follow an envious or admiring glance, and the traditional answers are a cleansing to remove it and a charm or anointing to keep it off. This vial blends essential oils and pheromones with a small talisman steeped in the perfume, so it serves as both.

Across the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Latin America, people have long believed that an envious look can sicken a child, sour a business or wither a plant.

Belief in the evil eye is ancient: Greek and Roman writers discussed it, and amulets against it survive from both. In Mexico and Central America, mal de ojo is especially feared for babies, who are thought to be vulnerable when admired by strangers, and it is commonly removed with a limpia in which an egg is swept over the body. In Spain and the Caribbean, babies are given azabache charms, small jet fists, to wear for the same reason.