¿bad vibes?

Just your typical day in the office… lots of women gathered around looking at the local clothing magazines, interns searching the internet, one or two dedicated employees frustrated and trying to actually get some paperwork done, and of course lots of gossip.
Today´s conversation started with lets plan our class tomorrow because we have to teach in the schools about the environment. Our planning lasted maybe 5 minutes when we started to get a little off topic.
This topic was worth the distraction though. I learned today about two great cures for Ecuadorian superstitions.
First, there is ¨chucaqui.¨ I believe it is something around these lines, you are with a group of people, and something happens to make you so embarrassed that you turn red and your stomach starts to hurt later on. Kinda sounds like the idea of thinking about something so much that you make yourself sick to your stomach or have butterflys..? But no worries, there is a cure… and no it is not time. You should massage your stomach with laundry soap, and this will get rid of the chucaqui, and your upset stomach.
Second, people can have an ¨ojeada.¨ This is kinda like the idea of an evil eye or a really bad energy about them. And apparently if a person is like this they can then pass it to other people by just being around them, and in turn that person will get sick. Now the good news is that there is a cure for this evil eye, bad energy. So you take an egg, can be cooked or raw, and you rub it all over the person that now has this bad energy. Next you put that egg in a glass cup that is half full with water, if you´ve captured this bad energy the water will bubble, and the more bubbles that come up the more energy there was. But only certain people have the skill to work the egg correctly… I´m still on the hunt for someone here that knows how.