El agua y la medicina popular en el Campo de Cartagena: terapia «catártica» y purificadora

Authors

  • Natalia Grau García

Abstract

This work analyzes the role of the water in the «cathartic» rites of the popular medicine through the analysis of its «purifi ed» action in the treatment of certain illness (the evil eye, «aliacan» or jaundice, «ojo de sol» or sunstroke, «carne huida», warts) or cures as blessed water by quacks that provides interesting interpretations the ethnographic-anthropological point of view.

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Published
03-06-2010
How to Cite
Grau García, N. (2010). El agua y la medicina popular en el Campo de Cartagena: terapia «catártica» y purificadora. Murcian Journal of Anthropology, (15), 35–51. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/rmu/article/view/108251