Rezas, benzeções e práticas de cura para humanos e animais não humanos (19312018).

Abstract

This research is a study about eleven folk healers who live in the cities of Irati, Rio Azul and Mallet; these cities are located in the central-south region of the state of Paraná. This research happened through the Oral History and had as its objective to analyze and understand some aspects of the healing practice of these people, among these practices, the practice of non-human animals healing, for example, horses, cows and dogs. We tried to demonstrate that the line between human and non-human animals is not so clear in the healing universe. Among these practitioners, there are five women who have polish ancestors, with this, we could gain a better understanding about how the practice of healing is not restricted to afro-ibero-indigenous spaces only, but also to the Slavic culture. With the help of these five folk healers who have polish ascendant we also got some disease‟s names in polish, since many of them still preserve their ancestor‟s language.