Abstract
The scandals induced by a dozen of women described as witches in the towns of Silos and Tota and by several male sorcerers in Chiscas and Güicán, show the breakdowns, the failures, and the delays in the process of Christianization and ‘puesta en policía’ in the Indian towns of the northeastern region of New Granada during the 18th century. These events clearly reveal not only the problems faced by the Spanish authorities in the jurisdictional control of civil society, but also the tension between ancestral beliefs and Catholicism. This article deals with the cases in which the political, the spiritual and imaginary boundaries intermingle and mix, and with the disorders and riots that the fragile margins of those societies generated in a geographic corridor that connected the settlers among Caracas, Pamplona, and Tunja.
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