The flying witches of Veracruz : a Shaman's true story of indigenous witchcraft, Devil's weed, and trance healing in Aztec Brujeria / James Endredy.
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TextPublication details: Woodbury, Minn. : Llewellyn Publications, 2011Edition: 1st edDescription: xxii, 204 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780738727561Subject(s): Endredy, James | Hallucinogenic drugs and religious experience -- Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State) | Datura -- Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State) | Shamanism -- Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State) | Wicca -- Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State) | Trance -- Mexico -- Veracruz-Llave (State)DDC classification: 201/.44097262 LOC classification: BL65.D7 | E53 2011Summary: THE OCCULT. Waking up blind in a cave, nearly dead from an evil witch's attack, is merely the beginning of James Endredy's true and utterly gripping adventure with the witches of Veracruz, Mexico. As the apprentice of a powerful curandero (healer), Endredy learns the mystical arts of brujeria, a nearly extinct form of Aztec witchcraft. His perilous training, using dream trance to "fly" and invoking spirits of the underworld, is fraught with spiritual trials. Upon becoming a curandero himself, Endredy takes on real-life cases: battling malevolent witches, healing a young man possessed by an Aztec spirit, rescuing a teenage girl from a Mexican drug cartel, and hunting down a baby-killing vampire witch.
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THE OCCULT. Waking up blind in a cave, nearly dead from an evil witch's attack, is merely the beginning of James Endredy's true and utterly gripping adventure with the witches of Veracruz, Mexico. As the apprentice of a powerful curandero (healer), Endredy learns the mystical arts of brujeria, a nearly extinct form of Aztec witchcraft. His perilous training, using dream trance to "fly" and invoking spirits of the underworld, is fraught with spiritual trials. Upon becoming a curandero himself, Endredy takes on real-life cases: battling malevolent witches, healing a young man possessed by an Aztec spirit, rescuing a teenage girl from a Mexican drug cartel, and hunting down a baby-killing vampire witch.
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