General characteristics of the "sorcerers" in colonial Peru

Abstract

The possibility that a member of an Andean community suffered a disease is very varied. But, in times past and taking into account an ecosystem as hard as the Andes are, the risks, we suppose, increased. The perception that is linked to the evils of the body has, in the pre-Hispanic worldview, a complex belief system. These provide a decisive factor to the mood component of beings, in this way it was understood that the individual could come to possess an imbalance of the fluids that his being had; or, losing his mind, a result that produced death. Along with this concept, of loss of the soul, the profession of restorative of the balance of the psychic entities is linked: the sorcerer, shaman, healer, traditional doctor, etc. But, we will analyze other sorcerers, because not only was the one who healed, there was also the one who got sick, the one who found objects, and other officiants