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Social Reproduction of Late Postclassic Ritual Practices in Early Colonial Central México
Table 1.1 - Incantations seized in written form by Ruiz de Alarcón, 1614-29
| Specialist |
Purpose |
Entities addressed |
Piciyetl epithet |
Length |
Source |
| 1. Anonymous deer hunter |
Deer hunting with snare |
Piciyetl, Xochiquetzal, earth, rope, deer, hands |
9-times
Stone-Pounded-One
9-times
Stone-Slapped-One |
22 sections |
Andrews & Hassig
(A & H)
94-105 |
| 2. Deacon of Cuetaxxochitla |
Carrying loads and travelling |
Piciyetl, road, load |
Green Honorable
Stone-Slapped-One
Green Honorable
Stone-Pounded-One |
7 sections |
A & H
84-86 |
| 3. Anonymous hypnotist |
Inducing sleep before theft or rape |
Sleep, victim, knife |
None |
3 sections |
A & H
78-80 |
| 4. Petronilla, from Tlayacapan |
Curing tertian fever with rue & coanenepilli |
Water, pain, patient |
None |
1 section |
A & H
197-98 |
| 5. Anonymous healer |
Curing illnesses through bleeding |
hands, needle, blood, water, illness |
None |
2 sections; incomplete? |
A & H
180-82 |
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