Mulheres curadoras e saberes terapêuticos-mágico-religiosos em Colares, Pará

Abstract

This research aimed to study the magical-religious and therapeutic knowledge of two curators ladies in the city of Colares, on an island located in the State of Pará Northeast, marked by significant indigenous heritage, colonized by Jesuit monks, known for the alleged appearance of UFOs in the decade 1970. Dona Maria is Catholic and has extensive knowledge, prepare baths, teas, poultices and scents used as financial attractive, loving, for protection and healing of spiritual diseases. Dona Ana is evangelical, has an expertise, the potions that mix both medicinal elements like magicians. We proposed as a problem, the relationship between these women, traditional knowledge with plants and their religious experiences. The first hypothesis was that the relationship between plants, religion and magic is critical in the life of the two ladies curators, providing supplementary income, sense of life and symbolic and social recognition. As a second case, we were argued that there are two ways of coordination between the magical-therapeutic use of herbs, the religious experience and knowledge of tradition, passed on orally in initiation and healing processes. The survey drew from semi-structured interviews and observations in the field, playing as both healing articulated in their lives know about the use of plants, their magical-therapeutic purposes and personal problems that arose in their lives to answer the question and the proposed hypotheses.