Brujería
Spanish for witchcraft: in Latin American and US Latino communities it names harm done in secret, and the accusations it brings.
Also: brujeria, brujo, bruja, hechicería, brujeria
Brujería is Spanish for witchcraft, brujo or bruja for the man or woman believed to practise it. In Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and Latino communities in the United States, the word usually means malicious sorcery: sickness, a failed business, a broken marriage, blamed on someone's secret work. The remedy is often a visit to a curandero or a priest, and a cleansing, limpia. Some people call themselves brujas in a positive sense, mostly younger Latina writers and artists who reclaim the word as a heritage and as feminist identity. This is a recent usage. The older word, hechicería, means sorcery. Colonial courts and the Inquisition tried both indigenous and Spanish-descended people for brujería.