Los brujos o brujas are mischievous individuals who practice evil around their neighbors or people they envy. Often for little or no cause generally it is on their enemies witches practice the evil doings which they are able to perform. No one is born a witch. Witchcraft is some kind of science a kind of learning which may be learned from other witches, In New Mexicans, they speak of a witch as being in agreement with the devil young people such as old have a terrible superstitious fear of witches and their evil doings. The means of doing harm which the witches have at their disposal are various but in practice. All their method's they bring into play their power of being transformed into any animal, therefore. A lady …show more content…
In certain villages in Northern Mexico, which were considered a favorite rendezvous for witches a certain house had been surrounded for various nights by owls and foxes the fox is another animal who the witches like to take. People fear harm from witches since the hooting of the owls. The owls and foxes disappeared in all directions with the exception of one old fox which had been wounded near the heart by an arrow. No one dared to approach the wounded fox however the next morning it was discovered that an old lady which was a witch living nearby was in her death bed with an arrow wound near the heart. Honestly, it has never occurred to me of the person’s soul leaving the body and entering into an animal. It is only seen in movies, not in real life. But in New Mexico, the general belief is that complete transformation of body and soul takes place at their will and in a case of no transformation the witch usually leaves the eyes behind. (Lummis, 1891). A witch may have a person under the influence of some evil illness or even vice at will the poor unfortunate individual who is beset by witches is also pursued and molested by devils and other evil spirits who help the witches. The general name for any evil or harm caused by a witch is in New Mexico Maleficio a spell called enchantment harm and the verb is malefuciar to do harm to bewitch to be under the spell or cease doing