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Something cast a spell over me!

Some years back, I had an experience that convinced me witchcraft is alive and well in Mexico.

In fact, it’s an ancient tradition which continues to be fuelled by centuries of indigenous spirituality, magic and lore, and kept alive today by brujas and brujos all over the country. Catholicism, to its credit, was unable to wipe it out.

The reason I can say this with such certainty is that I think I may have been spiked or cursed with a psychotropic drug. When you’re eating at a party where people are talking excitedly non-stop about seeing seraphim dancing around the chandeliers, there’s drugs.

By the time I arrived home, I was still woozy and numb, and complaining out loud about trees walking into me because they weren’t watching where they were going. Also, I couldn’t help but notice the cutter ants in the garden acting weird. Instead of shredding my flax plant into tiny slivers of chlorophyll and trailblazing them away, they were returning the flax leaves and putting the plants back together to full restoration. Friends say I was still hallucinating, but I swear it happened.

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