Thursday, May 3, 2012

Have you been a witch or sorcerer

From the text in Colonial Valley Zapotec that I am working on today.  This is from a ca. 1823 Confessionario.    (And I know that 1823 is a couple of years too late for the colonial period in Mexico, but the language is pretty similar!)

I don't know the meaning difference between the two Zapotec words used here.  They are both given as synonyms for brujo in Cordova.



And another question from the same document, a few lines earlier:


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