Brujería explained by actual brujas 💫
is one of the most beloved Orisha in Cuba – and in iconography, her image is closely tied the Virgin Mary.
“In the direction that we’re going [as a culture], it’s just going to be so ambiguous that I don’t think it’ll matter. We’re at a point in history where words like bruja, witch, or even witchcraft have a lot of stigma behind it. Historically a lot of us just intuitively know it’s time to kind of move past it,” says Gomez.
Brujería, however, can still be a source of fear for many, which Velasquez attributes to colonialism. “We’ve always been a very superstitious culture, but when we were colonized and told we couldn’t [pray to our spirits] because we would go to hell, I think it scared us. It made us afraid, not only of spirits, but of ourselves. But now I think there’s a lot of people coming out more [as bruja/os] because I think because we’re evolving, people are more accepting.
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