Oficios mágicos y ocultos

Greeters, tempestarios, fortune tellers, witches, seers, cartomantes, scarecrows, bell ringers, ariolos, augurs, haruspices, curiels, companions, feiticeiras, geneticists, fascinators, wolves, necromancers, petriquilleros, salisatres, greeters, sorcerers, resuscitators, alchemists, dowsers. .. Did you know of the existence of these trades? These are atavistic jobs, archaic at times, some already dissolved in the mists of time and others have been reconverted and refuse to disappear, especially those that had and still have an aura of sacredness, magic, power and belief. superstitious. There have always been characters endowed by popular tradition with powers to lessen the suffering of their peers to the point that many of their practices became true trades thanks to ancestral wisdom. The problem arose when many of these professions, the most heterodox, found themselves persecuted for their confrontation with Science and, above all, with the Church. These pages intend to bring us closer to those practices that have a clearly arcane or hidden, magical component, through the participation of certain social agents, coming from tradition, prepared and evolved especially for that purpose. A widely documented book whose purpose is to give an objective view of all those trades, with their lights and shadows, taking a journey through history and describing how they have evolved to this day, knowing that many were misunderstood, persecuted, feared or revered.