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	Circe's Writing: July 2002 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		She heard nothing of the constant clucking chickens are known for, but she was moved suddenly to gaze upwards, and like a blurred picture coming abruptly into focus, she saw that the thin branches of the cottonwoods were lined with tawny-feathered fighting hens, all silently turned towards her, orange eyes intent, eerily speculative.
		She mutely obeyed when the curandera beckoned her forward, dutifully bent and removed the slippers in turn as the curandera raised each foot, and stood gingerly holding the satin slippers, gaping at the tiny old curandera now barefoot upon the powdery warm ground.
		Somehow the curandera had reached the door of her home, leaving Rubia standing alone in the chicken yard staring dumbly after her, the satin slippers dangling in a limp glow of pink from one hand, the heated scarlet egg cupped carefully in the other.
	writing.circe-gets-laid.com /2002/07 (3206 words)

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		After the preliminary cleansing, the curandera's son instructed the woman to close her eyes, and he took a mouthful of the rum, spraying it finely over the body of the woman with a loud and guttural 'wwhoooosshh' sound.
		The curandera's son then selected two smooth round rocks from the mesa or shrine in front of his mother and stood in front of the woman being healed, striking the stones together while chanting.
		The feeling of the curandera's mouth sucking against my flesh was equally intense, and although my eyes were closed, and I could not see what foul material she spit onto the paper, it sounded repugnant.
	www.babasword.com /writing/prose/journal.html (10854 words)

	JournalStar.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		While she does not call herself a curandera, Olivas performs several curandera treatments, such as for susto, which means fright.
		Curanderas are generally women, and, typically, it’s a wife or mother who seeks out a curandera.
		His mother had taken him to a curandera when he was little, he said, but he didn’t know what to expect as an adult.
	www.journalstar.com /articles/2005/09/20/stat/doc432f1050d6ac4729870209.txt (1644 words)

	MARIA SABINA: Curandera, Shaman
		He is said to have had several species named after him and known as well, to have been married to a very powerful curandera Shaman himself (see).
		In 1955, Gordon Wasson and Allan Richardson, made history by becoming the first documented --- or at least widely publicized --- white men KNOWN to have participated officially in the nocturnal mushroom ceremony.
		Castaneda's wife Margaret Runyan confirms that her husband made frequent field trips to Mexico in the time he was supposedly apprenticed to Don Juan, and even though it has been recorded that Castaneda met briefly with Dr.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/bodhisattva/maria.html (808 words)

	Old School Healing with La Curandera Doña Predicanda
		She was sent to live with her grandmother, an indigenous curandera from Chihuahua, Mexico.
		She used to say that a curandera never pronounces herself as such or her powers may diminish.
		Decades ago, she and "Canda" helped to establish a free community clinic with Doña Predi as the resident curandera that medical doctors refered patients to.
	www.ladivalatina.com /curandera.html (705 words)

	Hispanic Folk Practices
		She was born near the turn of the century in Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico, and came to Utah with her husband, a railroad worker, in 1920.
		Florez exemplified the traditional Mexican-American curandera in her use of prayer, herbal medicines, and ritual acts to help the ailing.
		These curanderas provided a uniquely Hispanic perspective to healing, but they are also part of a larger group of folk practitioners in Utah that includes women and men from virtually every ethnic community.
	historytogo.utah.gov /people/ethnic_cultures/hispanicfolkpractices.html (519 words)

	Curandera Pat Mora They think she lives alone on the edge of town in a two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		When Mora states,"The curandera and house have aged together to the rhythm of the desert," she is inferring that the house and the curandera have been through the same things together almost as one.
		Pat Mora also uses the curandera as a simile to a bird when she writes," Like large fl bird, she feeds on the desert, gathering herbs for her basket." Mora is trying to convey the fact that the desert is her source of life which she must use all of its resources to survive.
		For one, the curandera, to be able to breath in sync with the mice, snakes, and wind would show that that person, the curandera, is capable of communicating with nature as well as humankind.
	faculty.weber.edu /kmackay/curandera__pat_mora__they_think_.htm (454 words)

	Curanderos: Curse of the Aztecs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Curandera convinced him he needed to continue to pay for her services in order for the boy to remain well.
		Within weeks of the father cutting off the Curandera, the vibrant 32 year old mother became gravely ill. By the time we were called, she was in a wheelchair, looked 90 years old and was almost fetally withered, her hands clenched and unable to open.
		It is frightening to me that presently, Curanderos and Curanderas are being allowed to train hospital staff, social workers, law enforcement and even educators in "their ways".
	www.gregoryreid.com /id133.htm (2037 words)

	Gardening : Herbs : The Curandera's Garden : Home & Garden Television
		It is not uncommon for a Mexican to consult a curandera for spiritual healing while under a medical doctor's care.
		If she is fortunate enough to have a plot of land, the curandera would tend a garden of useful plants for her own fresh harvest.
		This is folk medicine handed down verbally from curandera to apprentice, and all are combined with a strong dose of love and personal attention.
	www.hgtv.com /hgtv/gl_herbs/article/0,1785,HGTV_3595_2251140,00.html (736 words)

	RELIGION
		The saints are friends, and by way of their friendship, they help curanderas and other folk healers cure the ailments of their patients.
		Curanderas also believe they have a special task, a mission sanctioned from above: to do God's healing on ~ One saint that curanderas often call upon when healing is the Spanish saint, Teresa of Avi Ia. Teresa of Avila is the leader of the reforms within the Carmelite Order of nuns.
		The history of this saint includes that "she had the courage and stamina to establish sixteen convents despite censure, ridicule, and slander heaped against her by those within the church who were threatened by her piety and fearful of the impact the reforms would have on their comfortable ways of conducting affairs."
	www.msu.edu /~eldersjo/maegan.htm (2886 words)

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		With her broad range of knowledge, Gabrielita is considered a curandera total.
		Gabrielita's curandera kit is filled with the 23 herbs and roots she most commonly uses, along with a grinding stone.
		For the past several years she has been serving as curandera mentor to Virginia Alaniz, a licensed psychotherapist and an acupuncturist and herbalist in-training.
	www.herbalgram.org /bodywise/herbclip/review.asp?i=41428 (458 words)

	deseretnews.com \| 'La Curandera' could teach much about healing
		In short, she was a classic "curandera" — a medical folk practitioner in the Mexican community.
		The curandera's healing powers come from the Catholic religion's belief in the power of God, and all cures, and procedures, are prefaced with the curandera's and patient's belief in prayer.
		In addition to religion, the curandera involves the family, which in the Mexican culture is valued only second to God.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595076623,00.html (857 words)

	Short Story Contest Results
		The curandera reached in an apron pocket, pulled out a key and opened up the door to what had once been a walk-in closet.
		The curandera's son took the twenty dollars from the second woman and closed the deal.
		The urgency for a curandera keepsake infected Retta.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol17/issue48/xtra.shortstories/hm.goodwin.html (1775 words)

	ARTS Online: Symbolism: Curandera by Reyna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The three large hearts within the Curandera's body and head represent all the people she care for and cured.
		The plants and flowers coming out the Curandera's body means that she is a Curandera and all her medicine are made by plants.
		The large figure lying underground beneath the Curandera represents that her magic came mostly from the plants and that she comes from plants roots.
	www.lalc.k12.ca.us /artsonline/symbolism/curandera_rb.html (222 words)

	ARTS Online: Symbolism: Curandera Lesson
		Set in 1940s New Mexico, this novel explores the relationship between a young boy and an elderly curandera who has come to spend her last years with his family.
		Read the article, Curandera, to understand the role these women play in certain latino and/or indian societies.
		The Curandera seems to be connected to a large figure lying underground beneath her.
	www.laep.org /artsonline/symbolism/curandera.html (355 words)

	Bless Me, Ultima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bless Me, Ultima is a novel by Rudolfo Anaya, published in 1972.
		Set in New Mexico in the 1940s, it follows the story of Antonio Márez, a boy who meets a curandera named Ultima.
		The main plotline involves Ultima's struggle to stop the witchcraft of the three daughters of Tenorio Trementina, the main villain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bless_Me,_Ultima (642 words)

	La Bruja (The Witch) PERSPECTIVES FROM MEXICO BY CHARLES MORITZKY, IN MEXICO CONNECT
		Neither the witch or the curandera is likely to put out a sign announcing their profession as do medical doctors.
		When he tried to drive the truck, sometimes he would have to pull over to the side of the road because of dizziness.
		When they visited the curandera, she said that a doctor could not help him, that a neighbor was the problem, probably paying some one to cast a spell on him.
	www.mexconnect.com /mex_/travel/cmoritzky/cmbruja.html (789 words)

	Student Ethnographies/Jay Chicoine
		The majority of my research was collected over a week's period of time, as I had the opportunity to live with a curandera in the northern coastal city of Chiclayo.
		I was taught the uses, local names, and identification of a portion of the rich collection of medicinal plants used by the curandera.
		She said that it skips a generation in the family, that is to say that her grandmother was a curandera and her grandmother's grandmother before.
	www.usu.edu /anthro/peru/2003/jay.html (8410 words)

	Alejandra's Template page
		The curandera we interviewed, Rosa heals in her home and has a small porch that serves as the waiting room which people are lucky if they find a seat because usually curanderas have many patients that are waiting to be cured.
		What was interesting was the girl’s response, which was that, if she had told her supervisor, she probably would have had to go to a clinic but the treatment would have been pills, a lot of tests and she did not want to “dar vueltas en valde” (run in circles) hassled with appointments.
		Curanderas usually found by word of mouth, the healers form a type of health care network for people who are poor and uninsured, have entered the country illegally and fear having their position checked at conventional clinics, or merely want to preserve the previous traditions they brought from their homeland.
	www.west.asu.edu /PhxMetroWeb/Migration/Itzel/casestudy.htm (1587 words)

	Spiritual and Personal Attunement in Healthcare Practice
		I was born to be a curandera and a nurse.
		The curandera brings miraculous healing, but she never pretends to be other than one of the people.
		She rejects the dependency on the curandera and is intent on instilling consciousness and awareness in those she treats, to awaken the curandera within them.
	www.tara-approach.org /article_3.html (4823 words)

	Elena-La_Curandera
		All aspects of the "self" will suffer, and one will experience diseases that affect one's body, mind, emotions, spirit, soul, family, community, and nature.
		The Curandera understands this concept of illness and will have a knowledge of how to guide the patient back to balance.
		Curanderas also have insight into the way the patient perceives his own illness within the context of his culture.
	www.elena-curandera.com /Elena-LaCurandera.htm (287 words)

	Moore
		The curandera looked up and flashed a toothless grin over her shoulder and through her shawl to the old Mexican cowpunch.
		The curandera slept deeper and later than usual, she missed the break of dawn for the first time in a year.
		The curandera raised her head from her splitting stump, and though the rising sun blinded her tearing eyes, she clearly saw the silhouette of the bay stallion rimming the ridge to the east.
	www.zianet.com /lunarosity/moore.html (2342 words)

	'La Curandera' could teach much about healing Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - Find Articles
		In short, she was a classic "curandera" -- a medical folk practitioner in the Mexican community.
		It is only recently that modern medicine has started to accept that concept and one reason the holistic wellness/ healing movement is gaining greater acceptance.
		It is based on the fundamental support system she calls upon that is an integral part of Mexican culture -- God, the family and the curandera.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20040712/ai_n11465288 (459 words)

	CURANDERA ELENA AVILA
		She is a Curandera, and she has a masters in Nursing in Mental Health (major: Psychiatric Nurse Specialist) from the University of Texas at El Paso.
		Her mother had a "gift"—she knew remedies, but was not called a curandera.
		She is writing a book on her experiences as a Curandera and a nurse.
	www.ph-webnet.com /ph_a/articles/duval-8.htm (1376 words)

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		A curandera in the Mexican tradition is not really a bruja (witch.) A curandera has the ability to do both white magic(good) or fl magic(evil), but just as in the Wiccan order there are consequences for doing fl magic.
		After going back into my culture I find that being catholic and practicing a form of witch craft based in the catholic god and saints was something that worked for me. If you meet a curandera you will notice that she is a devoted catholic whose faith is deep.
		Well technically everything is, but for those of us who believe we have our herb garden in the back yard, a clove under our tongue, our candle to the Virgin lit, a perfume for suerti (luck), and a rosary in one hand.
	www.technodyke.com /features/curandera2.asp (374 words)

	WOMAN WHO GLOWS IN THE DARK eLENA aVILA
		Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health by Elena Avila, R.N., MSN Published by Tarcher/Putnam April, 1999 has become a national bestseller.
		Elena Avila is a poet, playwright, actor, writer, and renowned throughout the United States as a Curandera.
		Her book, Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health with an introduction by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, is according to Ms.
	www.jbean.com /Soledad/woman_who_glows_in_the_dark__ele.htm (785 words)

	RedOrbit NEWS \| Working Girl: Putting the Holy Back in Healing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Traditionally, a curandera is the healer in a Hispanic village.
		She has had a score of jobs, all of which relate to being a curandera.
		She is writing a book about being a curandera called Curandera: Si Dios quiere.
	www.redorbit.com /modules/news/tools.php?tool=print&id=281335 (1049 words)

	The Curandera of Oaxaca --- 2
		Part II My curandera doesn't speak a word of Spanish, so she brings along her six-year-old granddaughter to translate her Chatín into Spanish.
		I tried to explain that a Chatín curandera would never send over a dream that we could understand by western, Cartesian logic.
		My curandera --- or better, that part of her lodged within me (in computers, it's called a "cookie") --- knew the way my mind worked, so she sent me a moving picture in which I could see me and my twins, Christopher Reeve Superman I & II in action.
	www.ralphmag.org /curanderaT2.html (1870 words)

	Woman Who Glows in the Dark : A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual Health by Elena ...
		In conventional medicine, the body goes to the hospital, the mind to the psychiatrist and the spirit and soul to the church.
		Filled with wonderful stories about her own evolution as a curandera, and her experiences with teachers, friends, family and clients, Elena speaks to us with tremendous honesty, compassion, and a beautiful sense of humor.
		Suffice it to say that this book is essential reading for anyone seeking to achieve greater physical, mental, emotional and spiritual balance and clarity in their lives and in relationships.
	www.newvision-psychic.com /bookshelf/womglowdark.html (1168 words)

	Amazon.com: Woman Who Glows in the Dark: A Curandera Reveals Traditional Aztec Secrets of Physical and Spiritual ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Particularly thought-provoking is Avila's perspective on mainstream mental health and her preference for the holistic curandero approach to treating mental diseases, including psychosis and imbalances induced by severe trauma.
		We are interested in what traditional curanderos and curanderas in the Mexican tradition are doing, and we have been investigating that and trying to separate it from modern influences and the influences of hoaxes and frauds ever since we started.
		Lewt me start off by saying that I have been interviewing curanderos and curanderas in Mexico, along with their clients, for 15 years now, and I have read all of the major books on the subject, and I know what curanderismo is and what it isn't.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1585420220?v=glance (4159 words)

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