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Epilepsy is a neurological condition of high prevalence worldwide1. Cultural basis of epilepsy in different health-care systems had been studied2. For instance, Kleinman et al.3 claim that epilepsy is developed in a local context, where economic, moral, social and institutional factors affect the lived experience of seizures, their treatment, and their social consequences. Other authors4 point out that, in certain contexts, the social course of epilepsy can be “less benign”. The mythology about the origin and transmission of epilepsy involves “symbolic threats”5,6.