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University of New Mexico

1968

Afterlife; repentence; religion; burial practices

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Oral History #078: A Woman Is Revived From Death And Disturbs Her Family, James Mondloch, Miguel Guarchaj Ch'o'X, Diego Guarchaj Jan 1968

Oral History #078: A Woman Is Revived From Death And Disturbs Her Family, James Mondloch, Miguel Guarchaj Ch'o'X, Diego Guarchaj

K'iche' Maya Oral History Project

When the first Catholic priests arrived in Nahualá, one of them did witchcraft and made the people terminally ill. One night a dead woman returned home to her husband and children and ate most of her baby. They then re-buried her in the cemetery. In this manner the family was able to rid themselves of the zombie.