I think you're smart not to ignore the heads up you've been given - and deliberately doing clearing and protection for yourself never ever hurts!! It is true -- and odd -- that sometimes we catch the attention of someone and it is true that some of these people, due to their nature, cannot help but attack anyone they notice. A reflexive kind of thing. Can happen for the slightest of reasons. And when someone is under psychic attack, there are clues and hints and dream messages about it. But once you've had the warning, you can protect yourself. Especially when there's no real connection between you and the perp. Clearing, shielding, and there are also techniques to become invisible, unlocatable, to the attacking energy. Which works far better than trying to combat them in any way; engaging with them or even spending more than the minimal amount of time required thinking about them or trying to figure them out is a bad idea, I think, and it is cautioned against.

Once in Mexico some women in a village got all riled up at me because I looked at a baby too admiringly and they didn't like my light eyes either. They all started calling me "bruja" -- embarrassing. The best course was to just take off and not try to deal with it in any way or explain. I've often wondered how I'd fare living in another culture -- there are so many ways you can commit a faux pas in a strange culture!