Historia de la Curación de Antigua de San Pablito Pahuatlan Pue,

1975

The use of paper objects in curative and other rituals has a deep and enduring place in the indigenous cultures of Mexico. Paper is delicate and ephemeral and can be burned—a means of converting the represented message into a form that could reach the supernatural forces. In Otomí communities in Puebla, Mexico, curers cut hand-made, fig-bark paper into intricate representations of figural spirit entities. García Tellez<br>compiled these into books, including this example, which focuses on curing ceremonies and paper representations of the entities associated with specific illnesses.