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Photograph of a “mesa” ceremony by a curandero or folk healer, who uses herbs, potions, and belief to cure in Limoncarro, Peru

Photograph of a “mesa” ceremony by a curandero or folk healer, who uses herbs, potions, and belief to cure in Limoncarro, Peru
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Photograph of a “mesa” ceremony by a curandero, a traditional doctor or folk healer, who uses herbs, potions, and belief to cure ailments, in Limoncarro, Peru. The mesa ceremony takes place in a total darkness and lasts hours, and combines folk medicine, hypnosis, faith, and superstition. The curandero uses a human skull on the man in a hypnotic trance and under influence of hallucinogenic drugs. The skull is believed to have magic power to protect people from evil spells. The mesa combines traditional pre-Hispanic and Christian religion chants and prayers. Photograph by Nathan Benn taken April 8, 1989.

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Limoncarro, San Isidre, Jequetep

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Limoncarro, Nathan Benn, Peru, ailments, ceremony, chants, curandero, cure, doctor, drugs, evil, faith, folk, hallucinogenic, healer, herbs, hypnosis, hypnotic, magic, medicine, mesa, photograph, potions, prayers, religion, skull, spells, superstition, tradition, trance

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