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Incantations, "Comedias," and Epigenetics: The Ruiz De Alarcón Brothers Cast an Eye on Magic in the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Empire
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Gloria Bodtorf Clark – Hispania, 2023
In 1623, Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, a parish priest in Atenango, Mexico, was commissioned by his archbishop to record Nahua beliefs and healing practices for the purpose of denouncing their superstitions and demonic magic. His "Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain," 1629…
Descriptors: Clergy, Catholics, American Indians, Colonialism