How does witchcraft?

It is not easy for women to get a photograph of her husband

's mistress, but got it and with it, the picture of the daughter of the other wi
th him. Now he is ready to finish the job to fasten your unruly spouse. It's bee
n a couple of weeks he bought the wax doll in a black candle ordered him to acqu
ire the witch and her husband, nor has learned that stole his white underwear, y
es, he had to steal one of those not are new, so as not to notice. With the doll
, tack and pins him praying to the doll, she wrote the message on their underpan
ts and wrapped the doll, then tied it with a red ribbon and wrote his name and t
hree times the legend " tie you to your home "as it said the witch. Immediately
he went to the cemetery and laid in the tomb where he had left the pictures of h
im: two passport size photos to which they cross two pins stuck in the front to
dominate. What cost him more work was to write the letter by machine to be left
to the soul. In the letter he asked to fight with all his family except her, to
learn. I hope the gig to work, because the thing is becoming increasingly expens
ive. Especially with the purchase of the bathrooms and love me. But yes, she wil
l do whatever it takes to dominate her husband, it is not going to stop stealing
like that. The previous scene is repeated over and over again in this metropoli
s where sorcery and incantations coexist with scientific meetings, and leading-e
dge technologies. In the same block where the fiber optic cross connects us with
the information superhighway, lives a witch who says dissolute husband to contr
ol how you get ahead their troubled women. Science and witches coexist, or at le
ast shared spaces, barely noticing the other's presence. Firstly these practices
are part of a system that is based on the Catholic Christian cosmogony, but do
not follow the formal lines of the ecclesiastical authorities.
Generally, it is called popular religiosity, or simply witchcraft. The system wo
rks as follows: the souls of those who die go to purgatory, where they face tort
ure in the hope of ever reaching Paradise. However, to reach Paradise, they must
receive many prayers from Earth, meaning that humans can influence the divine w
ill. The interesting thing is that these souls are in a hurry to get out of Purg
atory, that should be at the flames, and make prayers in exchange for favors and
novenas. Even more curious is that the favors they do to get to heaven can be,
in themselves, not very good in moral terms: to separate a husband from his wife
, someone sick, make another lose your job, etc. The accounts of Purgatory is al
so very particular, because they see what favors are being asked only have the p
rayers that are coming to this or that particular soul. Thus, while the souls of
the dead are quick to do all kinds of favors, their intermediaries, the witches
and wizards that enable such exchanges, have a steady job. Witchcraft complex f
unctions as a semiotic system in which different codes are fused to make communi
cation more effective. First, the message is verbal, oral and / or written to be
used always and has a role. Second, are the images and objects of various kinds
that come into contact with the other codes. So you create a grammar of witchcr
aft and specialists who handle lay with varying degrees of competence. For the r
ealization of specific tasks using two traditional methods to affect the person
to be witchcraft, and the image extension. In the extension, the people they sen
d to witchcraft should provide something that is the extension of the body of th
e person who will be affected. They generally consist of body fluids (blood, uri
ne, feces, menstrual fluid), hair, nails or underwear, preferably used, so you h
ave more energy than the individual. In the image you should get pictures of peo
ple
question. These photographs will be prayed and crossed with pins to master the i
njured. They also provide photocopies of photographs or, ultimately, a drawing.
On the other hand there is the dreaded snowman. This comes in two forms: a doll
that can be purchased in a store and that he "baptized" with the name of the per
son who is or a doll made especially to represent the subject of witchcraft. Thi
s icon can be made of wood or cloth and, again,€is pierced by pins. But witchcr
aft work? This is the most common question and gets more heated responses. No wa
y to answer it properly, then, if you answer no, there is always someone who kno
ws someone who lived "in the flesh" all the horrors of witchcraft or could actua
lly get what he wanted with petitions and magical passes. If, on the contrary, i
t supports the efficacy of witchcraft, never again will enjoy the sweetness of t
he scientific world and will be sentenced with lapidary epithets as "premodern,"
"primitive" or "superstitious." While you can not actually know whether witchcr
aft works, we can say without fear of error that witchcraft exists and plays an
important role in the circulation of knowledge in many social groups. Witchcraft
interpretation provides a framework with which the person may attempt to exert
control over aspects of reality that are adverse. That is, the patient becomes a
gent, becomes subject to and in their environment. Thus, the disease that doctor
s fail to identify is a cognizable cause: a curse. I can do something about the
deep pain of the indifference of my beloved: the spell. Now I'm going out of the
se debts that I drown: the number of chance that I suggested my grandfather's gr
ave is the solution. One thing is certain: the world of witchcraft is tolerant a
nd inclusive as any. They live without Christ and his saints problems, together
with the Blessed Joseph Gregory, Queen Mary Lionza, the Black and Indian Felipe
Guacaipuru, There holy water runs alongside the doll prayed in a friendly eclect
icism, which more than surprised, we could serve as an example.