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Mexican Witchcraft | National Geographic


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
get this believers find the tools of
witchcraft at the Senora witches market
this is a this is a 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 the 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 for
engage in satanic rites it’s all here
purses fly powered by wing of bat and
tongue of pig witches bind hexes and
black ribbon ready for burial and a
human braid 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 Blackmagic Zabaleta was
traveling with Alberto and other healers
in the mission what we found and what we
saw that day was just unbelievable in 30
years of research field research into
Leucadia good entities Morin
I had never encountered anything like
God 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
short of peer America what is it over oh
my god the healers had come upon nearly
a hundred objects buried as part of a
hexing ritual 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 for
up the comics of somebody used to clean
themselves they put there something I
belong another person that they when the
cast is spelled over this this is a
monster it is black magic is it evil
just the the sense and the feeling that
I had of the the the people men women
children who were captured and so to
speak and those objects that are
intended to to to break up marriages or
break up relationships or to bring
people together or more nefariously to
kill people and in people’s lives and
there was a horrible thing jeez
the healers felt they had to take action
and hickley 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 turn somebody’s doing
it’s obvious if these people have to
find out
and destroyed something they’ve done
they may try to do something do you
I became physically
and everybody felt badly in one way
or another
with so much evil concentrated
the healers felt their spirits were in
jeopardy dr. zabaleta suspended his
disbelief and agreed to be cleansed a
theme piya 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
the fact whether real or imaginary was
very real on me 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
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