Examining Witchcraft

When I first thought of witchcraft,I mainly just thought of people casting spells. However, witchcraft in colonial Mexico was more then just casting spells. Someone that practiced witchcraft was known to be having sex with the devil. This is one of the main reason that witchcraft was viewed as a serious sin and if found using witchcraft you would be punish severely or even be put to death. Also witchcraft was use to make someone doing something, however during those times many people, mainly women , use witchcraft to stop someone from doing something. For instance, some women would use witchcraft to stop their husbands from committing adulterous acts or from being abusive towards them. If a woman was having problems with her spouse, she would seek another midwife or a folk healer that would probably be formally with a remedy that could help them in in their situation.

There was many methods that women use to executed these witchcraft method on their husbands. One of the frequent method use was to put the remedy inside the food they cook for their husbands. This was the most efficient was because the remedy could run through the man’s body and work effectively. Also, Men were not the only one subject to falling a victim to witchcraft. A woman could used it against the woman her husband might was committing adultery with , or a slave could use it as well against her owner due to the fact that he was abusive towards her