This may produce illness, discomfort or possibly death on babies or animals and failures on inanimate objects like cars or houses. Its a common belief that since this is an involuntary act made by people with the heavy look, the proper way of protection is by attaching a red ribbon to the animal, baby or object, in order to attract the gaze to the ribbon rather than to the object intended to be protected. Mexico
Mal de ojo (Mal: Illness - de ojo: Of eye. "To be made ill by an eyes gaze") often occurs without the dimension of envy, but insofar as envy is a part of ojo, it is a variant of this underlying sense of insecurity and relative vulnerability to powerful, hostile forces in the environment. In her study of medical attitudes in the Santa Clara Valley of California, Margaret Clark arrives at essentially the same conclusion: "Among the Spanish-speaking folk of Sal si Puedes, the patient is regarded as a passive and innocent victim of malevolent forces in his environment. These forces may be witches, evil spirits, the consequences of poverty, or virulent bacteria that invade his body. The scapegoat may be a visiting social worker who unwittingly cast the evil eye ... Mexican folk concepts of disease are based in part on the notion that people can be victimized by the careless or malicious behavior of others".Another aspect of the mal ojo syndrome in Ixtepeji is a disturbance of the hot-cold equilibrium in the victim.
In Armenian, char atchk (չար աչք) "evil eye" or "bad eye". Regarding the act of giving an evil gaze, it is said (directly translated), "to give with the eye" or in Armenian, "atchkov tal". In Azerbaijani, "Göz dəyməsi" – translating as being struck by an eye
In Chinese it is called 邪惡之眼 (Traditional Chinese characters) / 邪恶之眼 (Simplified Chinese characters) (xié è zhī yǎn, literally "evil eye") or simply 邪眼 (xié yǎn). In Corsican it is called "lOchju" (The Eye). In Dutch it is called "het boze oog", literally "the malicious eye" or "the angry eye". In Esperanto, it is called "malica okulo" (malicious eye). In Estonian, its called "kuri silm" (evil/angry eye)
In Finnish, its called "paha silmä" (evil/bad eye)
In French, it is named "le mauvais œil" (The bad eye)
In Galician, it is called "meigallo", from meiga, "witch" (and maybe -allo, diminutive or aumentative suffix; or contracted with either ollo, "eye"; or allo, "garlic"). In German, it is called "böser Blick", literally "evil gaze". In Greek, to matiasma (μάτιασμα) or mati (μάτι) someone refers to the act of casting the evil eye (mati being the Greek word for eye); also: vaskania (βασκανία, the Greek word for jinx)
In Hebrew, ʿáyin hā-ráʿ (עַיִן הָרַע, "eye of evil")
In Hindi and other languages of South Asia, (Hindi: nazar (नज़र); nazar lagna (नज़र लगना)) means to be afflicted by the evil eye. (However, it generally has no evil connotations because a doting mothers eye can supposedly also cause harm.)