Crzy down South Vocabulary

For this blog, I though i would include a Vocabulary Glossary to begging with. 

This blog is dedicated to my Art History Professor, Fransico Calvijero who wanted to write a book about my family and got a stroke and forgot about doing the book, and i was to be included in the research and the writing of it, but our past got separated by powerful forces called LIFE, 


And to my Grandfather Gonzalo Aguirre Peche, he is the soul reason this town has a festival, and has this following, and has been taken fro-granted and forgotten for all the work he did for this town even if it was a bunch of Hocus Pocus, And to my Grandmother ( Chepa) who i love and cherish more than any one knows and has fueled me with stories that  i will take to the next generation. She has shown all of us what it is to be a strong women, and also believed that she holds great power, but chose not to use it.   If you are ever in the area say that you read my blog and hopefully she will invite you to eat and you do not want to pass that off. 


and last for my Father Charles Allen Goldstein leder who i loved and taught me some of the most hardest lesson in life he past away last year, and loved this town after finding it in his hippie years in the 70's, and decided to stay and marry a crazy local girl who is part of the this history as one of the 7 brujas ( 7 witches) 


Crzy down South Vocabulary 


Brujo: Witch Doctor, or Chamana, or Bruja in the Female version. 
Purga: a concoction made to cleans all your insides and get rid of any harmful poisons you may have eaten that contain witchery or the evil eye, or jealousy by someone. Including ex lovers.  
Limpia: A process that involves a prayer to one of the Catholic Icons, where an egg, and basil leaves are used to clean you from head to toe, to get rid of evil spirits, and vibes. From this they also take a reading to see what is possessing you. The reading is taken by the egg that was rubbed all over your body to get all the negativity transferred in it. The egg is broken and poured into a brandy glass to see what they are dealing with and how bad you have been worked on by a wichery. 
Albaca: Basil Plant used to do the cleansing scared plant believed to hold supernatural power. 
Contra: Concoction made to protect you against witchery, could be a simple one that does not cost very much money, or the real expensive one, My aunt sells one i heard that cost around 25 thousand pesos. 
Amuleto: Special gift made to bring you luck or what ever you ask for. Sometimes you are ask to get a Gold Coin and the Brujo cures it to bring you the luck you need, or it could be small red pouch filled with incense, wax candles, and herbs believed to bring you luck and cure sickness. 
Santismia Muerte:  A saint that comes for the Dead, very powerful Saint, used for Dark Magic, She comes in different colors, each color represents what she does, and her power. She is highly respected, because she is a very jealous Saint, believed to come for people if she is betrayed. 
Nathual: This a being who is able to change into an animal and spy on people, and has a more indian background. In Art history this is studied in Pre-hispanic art, but in society today has been taken in a more modern way. 
Mayate: Only theory except in small towns in mexico, or in machismo society. This is a man who is married to a women, or has a girlfriend who is a women, but has sex with men, and claim to not be gay. He is the one who fucks the guy, not the one who gets in the ass. 
chaneques: It's a mystical being like ferries, or gnomes, but they have stayed in a childlike state usually cause trouble, and are considered dangerous if you are ever to see one face to face only way to get them to leave you alone is to cuss at them curs words. 
Primero de Mayo: the first day of May, is a festival in Catemaco Veracruz where all the witch doctors gather to celebrate what they do and stand for out in the open. they perform shows for people who come to see this festival, and tell their stories. ( I will elaborate on this later in my blog, for i have a bit of a beef with this festival) 
Cerro Mono Blanco: A mountain top called the White Monkey where the brujos gather to make sacrifices to the Devil.  Believed to be the source of power for all brujos, This is where my grandfather got his power by making an offering to the devil, with in my family rumors it is believed that he turned in one of his 9 children, but later made a deal that he would exchange himself in order to save his child. ( As soon as i convince one of my uncle to give up evidence that he has from personal archives that he has collected over the years i will post it to back up as evidence that i am not making this shit up.) 
Fiesta del Carmen: Another one of the big festivals this town host. This Celebrates a Catholic Virgin. It's is the towns Virgin believed to have been seen by a local fishermen, This fishermen called Juan Catemaco is the believed to be the reason the town was named Catemaco.  This is idealistically believed to be the reason, but it is not, the name Catemaco is part of Pre-Hispanic history and indian náhuatl language it means Burned Houses. This is a region that was governed by Mexico's first and mother indian culture the Olmecs is a very mysterious tribe that still to this day is an uncompleted discovery of this ancient culture believed to be magical beings. I'll try not to get into this very much to not bore you with a Pre-hispanic Art history corse. 


I hope you enjoy this blog, that is a story in the making.  It will be funny, and sad. It will be Life with a little bit of magic.