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| | Levy and Zumwalt/Ritual Medical Lore of Sephardic Women. Chapter 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | According to Diccionario de la lengua española (1970), the term refers to "a superstitious process of curing by means of prayers and the empirical application of various medicines." On the other hand, Vocabulario de romance en latín (1973) defines it as "exorcism." As with encantar, ensalmo denotes "enchantment" and the use of spells and charms. |
 | | Thus, the prekante de pelo joined together the fright and emotion as conveyed in the Italian pello, with the act of driving away or repelling the spirits as denoted in the Latin pello, with the Spanish symbolism of pelo for breast. |
 | | In all save the prekante de kulivreta, the person identified as "I," who was the prekantadora, was walking along a narrow street when she suddenly encountered an old man, or sometimes a young man (prekante de chefalo), and once, on a mountain, a bear (prekante de pelo). |
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