La Bruja Enamorada
La Bruja Enamorada
A glimpse into the colonial Latin American world
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"Bending the will of another to yourself is sinful. A violation of another's free will. Thus, the defiant nature of love magic is made apparent."
"Bending the will of another to yourself is sinful. A violation of another's free will. Thus, the defiant nature of love magic is made apparent."
La Bruja Enamorada, on love magic and superstition
The Church in Colonial Mexico
The Church in Colonial Mexico
Through demonological treaties and early modern philosophy, we see a formation of 'sin' and 'the evil.' However, my work La Bruja Enamorada, recounts how these interpretative models of behavior came to characterize relations between colonized peoples and colonial power structures. The Church was not simply leading an evangelization mission, but served as a guide of how behavior was labeled and accounted for.
"As disappointment turned into repression, 'extirpators of idolatries' resorted to European demonology to explain and uproot Satan's work in the New World."
"As disappointment turned into repression, 'extirpators of idolatries' resorted to European demonology to explain and uproot Satan's work in the New World."
La Bruja Enamorada, From Europe to the New World
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