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English: Healers of the Soul

The ceremonial act has two parts. The counter usually starts at 10:00 p.m. and ends the next day at 06:00 p.m., this begins with a prayer from the shaman asking God to make everything go well or to be fulfilled The wishes of the attendees. The "table" itself consists of a small altar, where religious images are placed either of Christ or the Virgin Mary, some saint, steel and wood swords to protect patients from evil spirits, flowers, cheap perfumes, crosses , Human skulls, photos of deceased relatives, stones to absorb negative energy. What follows is a rite that anthropologists would probably describe as syncretic: the invocation of saints, healers, blessed, and family; The act of entering in trance with the help of the juice of the San Pedro cactus, which helps him to visualize or to hallucinate on the things that surround the visitors in relation to his personal life. Patients perform the "zingada" of macerated tobacco; The attendants should sing a preparation of tobacco with fiery water that is first absorbed by the left nostril to vote the negative aspect and then through the right nostril to enter the positive, sometimes there are people who can not do the singado and is hired To a representative to do it for them. The cleansing is that the healer spreads your sword on all sides to cleanse you from evil spirits; And then sprinkles you with some cheap cologne to protect you from future evil spirits. Healers charge approximately $ 300 to $ 500 per ceremony for each patient and in some cases depending on the patient's economic ability they can accept less amount or a voluntary payment.

After the allowance the healer and the patients go to the lagoon chosen by him and the second part of the ritual is done, which consists of the bath and flowering in the own waters, for which the master healer proceeds to locate in a part of The shore, its equipment consisting of sacred stones, metallic arts, shells, swords, etc., which serve for the flowering of the sick or visitors. After the bath, an act of cleansing of all the evils of the body and the soul is performed, using a dagger or sword, the visitor proceeding to jump and escape from the evil airs that afflict him, as part of the cleaning of the body and the soul.