(Ebook) The Flying Witches of Veracruz: A Shaman’s True Story of Indigenous Witchcraft, Devil’s Weed, and Trance Healing in Aztec Brujeria by James Endredy ISBN 9780738727561, 0738727563

(Ebook) The Flying Witches of Veracruz: A Shaman’s True Story of Indigenous Witchcraft, Devil’s Weed, and Trance Healing in Aztec Brujeria by James Endredy ISBN 9780738727561, 0738727563

Waking up in Mictlan, the underworld entrance of the North, nearly dead from an evil witch's attack--this is where James Endredy's gripping true account of his experience with the witches of Veracruz begins. As the apprentice of a powerfulcurandero, or healer, Endredy learns the dangerous magic and mystical arts ofbrujeria, a nearly extinct form of Aztec witchcraft, and his perilous training is fraught with spiritual trials and tests. Taught how to invoke spirits of the underworld for assistance and use dream trance to "fly," Endredy is subjected to the black magic of abrujo negroand left alone in the graveyard of thebrujomasters to fight for his life. He is also called upon to do battle with the most sinister of all witches--el Brujo de Muerte, the Witch of Death.Upon becoming acuranderohimself, Endredy takes on harrowing real-life cases: healing a young man possessed by the spirit of an Aztec warrior, rescuing a teenage girl from a Mexican drug cartel, and hunting down a vampire witch terrorizing a small community.