El nahualismo y los tapahtiani/nahualmej de Cuetzalan, Sierra Norte de Puebla

This article deals with a very accurate ethnographical description of several kinds of healers from the north mountains of Puebla. On one side, we find the Tapahtiani the one who knows how to cure ; on the other side the nahualmej who presents a nahual nature with the possibility of transforming itself into an animal while asleep. Not all tapahtiani is a nahual nor al nahualmej is tapahtiani , the author points out. However, in some cases the nahualmej are required as tapahtiani in order to cure illnesses considered as evil , caused by harmful entities, airs or by masakame , a type of witch