The crime of the “evil healer”: a practice of “illegal medicine” in Irati-PR (1925-1926)

• DOI: 10.22533/at.ed.2163192315081

• Palavras-chave: Daily; Healing Practices; Healing; Crime; Power.

• Keywords: Daily; Healing Practices; Healing; Crime; Power.

• Abstract:

  The story presents its important meaning when it develops, through the investigative method, the search for the valorization of the human being as a subject of its daily life. The encounter with the particularities of human actions in history, with regard to the construction of their meanings, suggests an understanding of the diversities that make up the cultural dimension. Therefore, in this study, a look is given to practices that assume the connotation of healing, or even the “art of healing”. Using the criminal process as a documental source, the presence of this practice in the construction of daily life is highlighted, mainly in the region studied. The analyzed criminal document shows that healing practices are visible in this context, through the identification of an “evil healer” in 1925 in Irati-PR. This studied criminal process presents the personality of this practitioner of “illegal medicine” and brings up the idea that the criminalization of this action is based on the social relations of the time.