Analysis Of The Priest And Sorcerer Of Suchitlan

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The priest and sorcerer of suchitlan

In Colima, oral tradition and legends are part of everything and everyone. From the humble peasant to the highest intellectual, everyone in our towns and neighborhoods treasure stories and happenings that have been saved through time from voice to voice, which have endured and survived in memory, thanks to grandparents and grandmothers, memories alive history, our history, where the most fantastic characters coexist with the most daily realities of our communities, forging with it the most beautiful collective imaginaries, those that revive in our minds and hearts every time they are told by someone who, from mouth to ear, it makes depository of this history to the new generations.

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The priest entered the house and was surprised by everything he saw there, altars, plants, objects and clay idols, animal heads and many other things that the sorcerer used for his rites and 'works'. Removing him from his first impression, the 'sorcerer' approached him offering him an equipal and said:
-You will say what I can help you with, father ...
The priest sat down and very annoyed he began to say to that sorcerer man:
-I come to demand that you stop doing your evil tricks! Stop cheating and draw people out with your lies! You only cheat people! Because you and I know that does not exist! You know well that witchcraft is a lie! Beliefs for ignorant people! So I demand that you stop influencing and deceiving the population! .
The sorcerer, who until that moment had remained calm and listening attentively to what the priest was saying, answered:
- So you do not believe that what I do is true? Do not you believe in the power that the ancient gods have conferred on me?
"That's right," said the priest.
They are just a jumps of lies and I come to demand that you stop doing

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