4 Market witches scattered throughout the world

As long as there is death - there is a belief in mysticism. While there is a belief in mysticism - there are people who are engaged in it. Is there magic in reality? I do not know. But all this is very interesting. In the world of witchcraft also developed so that witches and wizards even organize their own markets - the market economy does not spare anyone;) In addition to the magic: Remember all those ridiculous television recipes that begin with the words "Take the green language lilac parrot ..."? Now you know where to buy these products! We look at the biggest market of witches and sorcerers.





Witches Market Bolivia



One of the largest markets for sorcerers is in the actual capital of Bolivia - La Paz, at 3,600 meters above the level of the sea. Basically, here comes the local sorcerers and healers, which is called here kallavayami, but there are also ordinary tourists, wandering from stall to stall in search of love potions, amulets, good luck, incense and candles from evil spirits. Particularly noteworthy are the mummified remains of animals or carcasses to butcher animals, such as dried frogs or bats, and, of course, llama fetuses - they are sold at $ 2 apiece. Here, by the way, you can buy fresh coca leaves, without which local occultists literally can not live.













Market fetishes Akodesseva in Togo



Akodesseva is located in the capital of the Republic of Togo Lome - strange and unexpectedly friendly place that distinguishes from conventional markets except fetishistic assortment afterworld. Mountains here are skulls of cattle, dried heads of monkeys, buffalo and leopard. Hyenas and foxes, antelopes and gazelles - their bodies found refuge on the shelves under the scorching sun. The market stalls are popular folk healers and witch doctors, which swirls flock terminally ill people. In Akodesseve have something like houses of worship, where shamans consult with the sacred and all-knowing cowrie shells on how to treat travelers (usually the course is dust chosen burnt animal, pounded in a mortar with some grass).



















Witching Mercado de Sonora in Mexico



Initially, the Mercado de Sonora, whose discovery was initiated by Mexican authorities in 1950, was created as a place for retail consumer goods. After a while, food and clothing vendors began to divide shelves with sellers esoteric and ritual paraphernalia. Throughout the year, they sell unremarkable souvenirs, but for the celebrations of the local religious cult Santa Muerte market downright transformed: in addition to incense, candles and soap (which, as claims can cure even cancer), local healers sell herbs, oil, equally "successful" help save the marriage or cure infertility, as well as endangered animals - owls, peacocks and black iguanas.









Market quackery Mercado de Brujas



In the capital of Peru, Lima sorcerers, hereditary healers, witches and other charlatans of all stripes flock, as if by magic. This place - the largest in the country, "warehouse" stuff: snake oil for the treatment of arthritis, dried frog help from anemia, bewitching candles, coca leaves for divination in a trance, mix, powder, elixirs and potions ready. Market is not far from the railway station Gamarra, and officially positioned as a resource base for the sorcerers and healers, but here for a modest fee, you can tell fortunes on the hand, and for sverhumerennuyu - alone with a young "fortune teller" behind the screen.











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