Specific to the Hispanic population was the belief that emotional transference could cause illness. “Sometimes people…get really…upset and angry and if they argue…then look at the baby…that anger transfers to the baby and that’s what makes them sick.” Another mother who was shopping with her child reported that “the lady that sells goes, ‘Oh, what a handsome boy’ and then when we left, his eyes started(having) some yellowish-ness and they looked really red…somebody said, ‘Oh, somebody’s given him the (evil eye)’ ”