To drive away illness

To drive away sickness and the evil eye:

Ingredients:

A peeled guava stick
Corojo butter
White, blue, red, yellow, black, green, and brown ribbons.

Bend the guava stick into a shepherd's crook shape. Cover it thoroughly in corojo butter. Wind the seven ribbons around it. Place the stick behind the door.

To drive away sickness:

Tie a dry corn cob behind the door with a purple ribbon.

To protect against a cold or flu:

During the cold and flu season, take a small jute bag and fill it with a few pieces of camphor and two or three mint leaves. Hang the bag from your neck or pin it to your underclothes.


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