Bernardino de Sahagún’s account of Nahua ticitl healers

Record summary

Descriptions of Nahua healers and ritual specialists in Sahagún’s materials include diagnosis, herbs, speech, divination, and relationships with deities or supernatural forces. The material can be compared with later Latin American curanderismo and mediumistic healing, especially around trance, authority, illness narratives, and culturally sanctioned expertise. It does not establish paranormal efficacy and is filtered through informants, translators, missionaries, and early modern European categories. Relevant passages should be read alongside Nahuatl-language editions and contemporary ethnohistorical criticism.