brujo

American  

[broo-hoh, broo-khoh] / ˈbru hoʊ, ˈbru xoʊ /

noun

brujos plural

1. in Latin America and parts of the West Indies, a man who practices Brujería, a form of witchcraft or traditional religion.

   He's Latino and he's a brujo, born to free the souls of the dead so they can pass over.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• brujos
  plural

Etymology

Origin of brujo

First recorded in 1750–60; masculine form of bruja ( def. )

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

brujo brujos

That night, my mom brought in a disheveled-looking stranger who said he was a brujo.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2023

But my family didn’t hire a brujo instead of turning to evidence-based cancer treatments.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2023

While he was away, I went to see a brujo who billed himself as La Maravilla—the Marvel.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015

Don Juan was an exceptionally powerful "man of knowledge": a brujo, or sorcerer.

From Time Magazine Archive

I woke up in a panic in the middle of the night, sure that some brujo had put a spell on me and that’s why the baby had died.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

La Rinconada had many brujos, soothsayers who advised miners on what prayers and payments they could make to the mountain gods to help them find gold and come home alive.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 13, 2015

The familiar shapes of society — landlord and peasant, priest and politician — are laid over a stranger ground, the occult Mexico, with its brujos and carismaticos, its sorcerers and diviners.

From Time Magazine Archive

But because the brujos understand the Mexican-American psychology, they score higher than doctors in curing mental illness.

From Time Magazine Archive

Harder to find are the brujos, who cure asthma by hanging a tiny dead green frog in a bag around the neck.

From Time Magazine Archive

As for the brujos, it is believed that they embarked in some small vessel which was lying concealed in one of the rias of the coast.”

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry