La danza del volador y algunas creencias de Tempoal en el siglo XVIII

Resumen

In a 1783 report preserved in the papers of the Inquisition at the Archivo General de la Nacion, Mexico, the parish priest of Tempoal, Panuco, Veracruz, denounces a number of unorthodox practices in his village. They are: corruption of Catholic teachings, pagan medical practices, the celebration of feasts centered about the flying pole dance, unorthodox ideas about the afterlife, and beliefs in the evil eye and ailments caused by the "loss of shadow".