Mexico City home to 20 million people
most of them Catholics the church
forbids any dealings with witchcraft
saying it’s the work of the devil
but for many Mexicans the allure of
magic both good and evil is irresistible
believers find the tools of witchcraft
at the Senora witches market
afro-caribbean anthropologist Anthony
zabaleta has studied the market for 25
years in every cranny of this maze bruja
or witch doctors peddle their cures it’s
a market for even the most gruesome
wares along with goods the market
provides services in back rooms behind
the stalls nearly anything is possible
spells can be cast or lifted customers
can have their spirits cleansed or
engage in satanic rites
it’s all here
purses fly powered by wing of bat and
tongue of pig witches bind hexes in
black ribbon ready for burial in a human
grave curses like these are all too
familiar to doctor zabaleta as part of
his research zabaleta has been studying
with Alberto Salinas a healer who’s come
all the way from Texas Alberto is here
to restock his hex fighting kit
believe in witchcraft was just an
abstract idea for doctors a Valletta
until he had his own life-changing
encounter with black magic zabaleta was
traveling with alberto and other healers
on a mission what we found and what we
saw that day was just unbelievable in 30
years of research field research into
Leucadia including Diddy’s moyen i had
never encountered anything like that and
probably never will again they came to a
site where black magic was rumored to
take place doctors a Valletta videotaped
the events that followed what is it over
time oh my god the healers had come upon
nearly a hundred objects buried as part
of a hexing ritual oh my God look at
that
that’s unbelievable Oh hold it up for me
my god this is casting a spell over
someone this is at the carnage that
somebody used to clean themselves they
put something I belong another person
that they wanna cast a spell over this
is most of it is black magic though is
it evil just the the sense in the
feeling that I had of the the the people
men women children who were captured and
so to speak in those objects that are
intended to Daz to to break up marriages
or break up relationships or to bring
people together or are more nefariously
to kill people and in people’s lives and
there was a horrible thing
the healers felt they had to take action
and quickly for Alberto the mission
suddenly turned extremely dangerous when
you break spells and evil spirits are
concerned you are in danger you’re going
into somebody’s territory
somebody’s domain it’s obviously these
people happen to find out that you’ve
gone and destroyed something they’ve
done and they may try to do something to
you
I became physically I became I was ill
and everybody felt badly in one way or
another with so much evil concentrated
in one place
the healers felt their spirits were in
jeopardy dr. Zabaleta suspended his
disbelief and agreed to be cleansed
Olimpia to use the Spanish word ritual
sweeping and a cleansing to have
whatever might have attached itself to
us to take it off of us and hence make
us whole and put us back together his
experience that day in that place pushed
aside science and challenged his beliefs
the effect where the real or imagined
was was very real on me and of course an
imagined effect or psychologically
emotionally induced a fact that produces
physiological change is valid and it’s
real but I’ve seen many things that I
simply cannot explain dr. Zabaleta story
is not uncommon science doesn’t always
conquer the supernatural and for those
who believe witchcraft is all too real
you
most of them Catholics the church
forbids any dealings with witchcraft
saying it’s the work of the devil
but for many Mexicans the allure of
magic both good and evil is irresistible
believers find the tools of witchcraft
at the Senora witches market
afro-caribbean anthropologist Anthony
zabaleta has studied the market for 25
years in every cranny of this maze bruja
or witch doctors peddle their cures it’s
a market for even the most gruesome
wares along with goods the market
provides services in back rooms behind
the stalls nearly anything is possible
spells can be cast or lifted customers
can have their spirits cleansed or
engage in satanic rites
it’s all here
purses fly powered by wing of bat and
tongue of pig witches bind hexes in
black ribbon ready for burial in a human
grave curses like these are all too
familiar to doctor zabaleta as part of
his research zabaleta has been studying
with Alberto Salinas a healer who’s come
all the way from Texas Alberto is here
to restock his hex fighting kit
believe in witchcraft was just an
abstract idea for doctors a Valletta
until he had his own life-changing
encounter with black magic zabaleta was
traveling with alberto and other healers
on a mission what we found and what we
saw that day was just unbelievable in 30
years of research field research into
Leucadia including Diddy’s moyen i had
never encountered anything like that and
probably never will again they came to a
site where black magic was rumored to
take place doctors a Valletta videotaped
the events that followed what is it over
time oh my god the healers had come upon
nearly a hundred objects buried as part
of a hexing ritual oh my God look at
that
that’s unbelievable Oh hold it up for me
my god this is casting a spell over
someone this is at the carnage that
somebody used to clean themselves they
put something I belong another person
that they wanna cast a spell over this
is most of it is black magic though is
it evil just the the sense in the
feeling that I had of the the the people
men women children who were captured and
so to speak in those objects that are
intended to Daz to to break up marriages
or break up relationships or to bring
people together or are more nefariously
to kill people and in people’s lives and
there was a horrible thing
the healers felt they had to take action
and quickly for Alberto the mission
suddenly turned extremely dangerous when
you break spells and evil spirits are
concerned you are in danger you’re going
into somebody’s territory
somebody’s domain it’s obviously these
people happen to find out that you’ve
gone and destroyed something they’ve
done and they may try to do something to
you
I became physically I became I was ill
and everybody felt badly in one way or
another with so much evil concentrated
in one place
the healers felt their spirits were in
jeopardy dr. Zabaleta suspended his
disbelief and agreed to be cleansed
Olimpia to use the Spanish word ritual
sweeping and a cleansing to have
whatever might have attached itself to
us to take it off of us and hence make
us whole and put us back together his
experience that day in that place pushed
aside science and challenged his beliefs
the effect where the real or imagined
was was very real on me and of course an
imagined effect or psychologically
emotionally induced a fact that produces
physiological change is valid and it’s
real but I’ve seen many things that I
simply cannot explain dr. Zabaleta story
is not uncommon science doesn’t always
conquer the supernatural and for those
who believe witchcraft is all too real
you
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