feiticeiras

Updated: May 23, 2025

It consisted of throwing pinches of powdered bark of a certain tree, and other substances, into the fire while muttering a spell a prayer repeated backwards and adding the name of the person on whom she wished the incantation to operate. Some of the feiticeiras, however, play more dangerous tricks than this harmless mummery.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons