Age: 21
Date: 2/27/24
Major: Media Arts and Practice
Year: Senior
Primary Language: English, Spanish
Place of Origin: Peruvian Amazon
INTERVIEWER: What’s a superstition you have, are you practice and where did you learn it from?
STUDENT: Uh. It’s it’s a Peruvian or more like Amazonian superstition, and it’s like there’s these um seed that is like red colored with like a black dot. or like a a big blob, black blob.. Uh, and they usually make like either necklaces or um wristbands, um stuff like that. And they usually put them on little babies, and the superstition is that if you wore it, you’ll prevent getting “mal de ojo’”, which is like if someone looks at you with bad intentions, that, you know, they’re gonna like something bad is gonna happen to you, like you’re gonna get sick or something.. So, to prevent that on children, uh, they put that on. And sometimes, like some adults also keep it. um now, I think my mom did it with me just because he was like more of a cultural practice than she actually believed it. Uh, and then but also it’s like a very popular thing to wear. so now, I don’t wear it very often, but I have like two necklaces that my mom gave me when I got into college. so yeah, I I worked on every now and then, but yeah..
INTERVIEWER: And then you would say you learned this from, like, your mom?
STUDENT: Yeah, from mom and like just the community and local culture.