Explain what each picture indicates.
Picture of Saint Anthony [Sarantoni].
Aloe vera hung at house entrance against bad energy.
Rosary for protection.
Altar to pray to and venerate saints.
Cigar smoker, a ritual/ spiritual action to get rid of bad energy and cure people.
Altar of Saint Michael, devout person venerates.

At a funeral, people go to the coffin and put something (pin, flower or another object) on the deceased.
When they reach the burial site, people line up to throw sand on the coffin.
After the funeral, people go home to ‘wash hands’.
What do each of these three rituals mean?
This is how people say goodbye to the deceased person so that he/she may have eternal rest.

How is a child protected against the evil eye?
Bluing is rubbed on the child (on his/her head in his/her hair, on his/her back where nobody can see it).
Let him/her wear an evil eye bean and black fist.

Give five traditional ways to protect your house.
Aloe vera at house entrance
Burn incense in a house
Raise chicken with twisted feathers
Crucifix above main house entrance
House altar in room corner

You’re almost home and feel as if there’s something evil behind you. What did our ancestors do in the past? in the past?
They’d enter their house backwards.
They’d wear their clothes inside out.