Myalist, bush doctor, iyalorisha, curandera, four-eye, even obeah woman for them who don't understand. |
Anaya recalled that decades ago certain New Mexico schools banned Bless Me, Ultima, whose protagonist is a curandera, or healer. |
In a 1961 salvia ceremony, Wasson drank a foul-tasting mixture of leaf juice and water under the guidance of a curandera. |
Another mother, reported giving her boy an herb tea prescribed by a curandera when the boy was scared or anxious. |
Like maybe Tony Robbins, a well-known Mexican curandera, and writer of many bestselling self-help books. |
When she eventually recovers, she apprentices to become a curandera, and in a slow, agonizing manner, falls in love with a native American woman. |