Fifty Photographs: selections from SCUA collections

Traditional medicine: 'Od sekajtsa': Treatment for sekaitsa, disease caused by the evil eye and hunger

Title

Traditional medicine: 'Od sekajtsa': Treatment for sekaitsa, disease caused by the evil eye and hunger

Creator

Obrebski, Joseph 1905-1967

Date

ca.1932

Extent

1 photograph

Description

As Europe in the 1930s lunged toward a modernity marked by mechanization and dehumanization, deep strains of traditional life survived in its remote corners. In a mood at once somber and serene, the Polish ethnographer, Joseph Obrebski, captures a magical moment in a dim peasant hut in the mountains of Macedonia when a woman suffering from the evil eye and hunger was healed.

Collection:

Josef Obrebski Papers (MS 599)

Identifier

mums599-b55-i324

Cite As:

Traditional medicine: 'Od sekajtsa': Treatment for sekaitsa, disease caused by the evil eye and hunger. Photo by Josef Obrenbski, ca.1932. Josef Obrebski Papers (MS 599)