WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT Mexican brujería (witchcraft) is generally assumed to be just the folk magical practices of Mexico and its borders.
You have the key, unlock the door..
Tienes la llave, abre la puerta.
This is the brujería of our blood.
This is the brujería we were warned to stay away from .
This is the brujería we grew up with.
Blood of Brujería tells the stories we were told, and the magical lessons we were taught.
In this book we explore brujería, not from an outsider or academic perspective, but through first-hand spiritual accounts.
Traditional Mexican brujería and its practices warrant their own conversation.
In our first book, Magia Magia: Invoking Mexican Magic , we explored the magical folk practices of our ancestors and their current iterations.
We hope that this book can serve the community as a working guide that will lay bare and rectify common misconceptions and misunderstandings.
The spells and trabajos (spiritual workings) within this book are placed in the reader\'s hands to use as they decide.
The one who holds the tool decides its purpose.
It can also be employed for violence.
A knife is a tool commonly used to prepare food; it has no intention of its own.
Brujería isn\'t just cursing and hurting people without reason; it\'s a powerful means for defense and the fight for fairness in the face of injustice.
This book explores the basic concepts of Mexican brujería by clearly presenting it as its own distinctive branch of magic.
In the pre-hispanic societies, brujería was revered, and those who had the gifts to perform it were much respected, as well as feared.
It is deeper, darker, and rooted in the teachings of the Mexican ancestors.
But, the magic, spells, and rituals of Mexican brujería are very much a system of their own.
WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT Mexican brujería (witchcraft) is generally assumed to be just the folk magical practices of Mexico and its borders
