Abstract

FAGETTI, Antonella. Ixtlamatki versus nahualli. Chamanismo, nahualismo y brujería en la Sierra Negra de Puebla. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2010, vol.5, n.10, pp.4-23. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2010.10.145.

The characteristics of ixtlamatki and nahualli, as agents of good and evil in the imaginary of the Nahua people from Tlacotepc de Díaz, Puebla, constitute the starting point for reflecting upon the relationships between shamanism, nahualism and witchcraft as part of the symbolic-magic-religious system in the web of life and death. The case of the Nahuas from the Sierra Negra allows us to establish a set of similarities and differences between these three major categories and to distinguish the features that can potentially guide their study in other cultural contexts.

Keywords : shamanism; nahualism; witchcraft; ritual specialists.