Note 82 — Chapter I · THE EVIL EYE AND THE SCARING OF GHOSTS.
Reading edition
In the same way in India, people who are too poor to afford another protective place on the top of their houses a shoe heel upwards. This seems to give some additional efficacy to the charm, because we find the same rule in force elsewhere. Thus, in Cornwall, a slipper with the point turned up placed near the bed cures cramp.82 In Pûna, if a man feels that he has been struck by an incantation, he at once takes hold of an upturned shoe.83