A curandero is a white witch, who practices beneficial magic. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The curandero was a large man with a smooth face and a deliberate manner. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)
60Today, the word "curandero" brings to mind images of a healer working in long-forgotten traditions, dispensing herbal remedies, and curing curious ailments such as "evil eye" and "susto" by way of magic and ritual. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Note 12: Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran, Medicina y magia: El proceso de aculturación en la estructura colonial (México: Instituto Nacional Indigenista, 1963); Neomí Quezada, Enfermedad y malefación, el curandero en el México colonial (México: UNAM, 1989). back ❋ Unknown (2008)
But the repertoire of the curandero did not belong exclusively to the realm of the supernatural; most healers combined these practices with the standard therapeutic techniques of the day, such as bloodletting, purging, bathing, and massage. ❋ Unknown (2008)
These peculiar objects could be sucked out — the curandero used his or her mouth to do this — of any part of a patient's body, but most common was from the navel or somewhere on the face. 94 The healing methods of the indigenous curandero, at least during the first hundred years of the colonial period, had changed very little since the days of their ancestors. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In 1784, José Antonio Hernández, a Spaniard, was arrested on charges of curandero supersticioso. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Note 85: Nóemi Quezada, Enfermedad y maleficio: el curandero in el México colonial (México: UNAM, 1989), p. 107; Ruiz de Alarcón, p. 7; see also Serge Gruzinski's comments on sources and methodology in The Conquest of Mexico, pp. 305 – 8. back ❋ Unknown (2008)
The curandero was a specialist who claimed to have a unique intimacy with the supernatural elements of reality, a domain that was accorded an essential function by all cultures in New Spain, although to varying degrees. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Finally, somewhere along the Ucayali River in Peru, Allen found a curandero drug doctor who agreed to preside over his preparation and ingestion of yage. ❋ Bill Morgan (2010)
But in the day-to-day world of colonial medicine, a curandero was not so clearly or narrowly defined. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The novice could acquire all sorts of medical expertise empirically by working alongside the barber-surgeon, the partera, and the curandero. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It works to better see where we are, where we are coming from and where we are going, said psychologist Javier Zavala, a self-styled curandero or healer, as he opened an ayahuasca session one recent Saturday night. ❋ Unknown (2007)
More chanting was led by Opalanga Pugh, an African griot and Denver native, David Young, an Apache curandero, and Rabbi Nadya Gross. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He is a curandero also, an extremely religious man and shouldn't be disturbed. ❋ Unknown (2004)
One gets to be a curandero by serving as an apprentice or by being seen to possess the gift of God for healing. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Many inhabitants will consult the curandero before the doctor. ❋ Unknown (2004)
