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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

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

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

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