Sitting at a round table in a street side cafe, I asked my best friend over our coffees, “Did your grandma ever knock eggs on your or you sister’s heads?” My bestie took a sip of her steaming tea, considered the question a moment before saying, “Yeah, yeah she did.” I’ve personally never […]
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If you are thinking to yourself, “…So what is a bruja?” You are not alone. To answer simply, it means “witch.” But there’s so much more to the term than that. It’s a fascinating word and world with many meanings and we’re going to just barely skim the surface of those meanings now.
“My abuelita thought I was possessed,” one of the students in my 9th/10th grade English class declared. “She used to crack eggs on my head while saying prayers in Spanish. At least, I think that’s what she was doing.” I looked up from the stack of papers I was grading and said, “I know what that is.”
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