Historian Robert Martinez on New Mexico's History of Witchcraft and Sorcery | NMPBS ¡COLORES!

[@alexandercortez5190]

Man it's good to see you shining on that stage good to see you healthy favorite History teacher and singer of the Beatles

[@MacKenziePoet]

Always a very positive and I dare say loving approach to our history from Rob Martinez...

[@Joy-ne8sj]

I was raised in Santa Fe NM, my great Grandma on (Apodaca Hill) used to paint her windowsills with Turquoise paint to keep the witches out.

[@carlahernandez8081]

think its called Haint blue/witch means ,,,bad spirits can not travel over water & the blue paint trick them...

[@siegeone4442]

I'm Apodaca and live in Albuquerque but I NEVER knew we had a hill LMAO 😂😂😂

[@GoofyHistorians]

So interesting...we want to hear more about this!

[@felipemendez1582]

My grandmother told me about this .stories of which craft. She was born in Santa Rosea NM. She this kind of stuff was still happening into the 50s and 60s.

[@hermisphasha5404]

50 nd 70 was much of talk of town, a thought Africans where the only witches,

[@lawtonsfinest8622]

Yep my parents would tell thangs like this & they from the Deep South and I heard thangs like this here in the Canada region from Canadians on both sides the border.....

[@frankmorris4790]

It carries on to this day...50th in education don'tcha know....

[@mickidonahue4038]

I couldn't be as tactful and kind as this man, but I hope to be some day.

[@johnvaldez2415]

It is Still going Strong today.... And Is In Every Culture...

[@psalm91.777]

I grew up like this my grandma was a curendera and she would talk about it and even pray and use herbs

[@robertgarcia5377]

Smart man Just spilling out !!

[@newsandviews4595]

As the boy said tomorrow you'll come for salt I heard some of these things growing up from my own family. I remember hearing the one don't look at the baby too much. And a lady who married into the family my mom would not let me accept gifts from hers that don't look her in the face too long Because she practiced witchcraft. I havent heard that word in a long time ABRUJAI think I spelled it wrong but now that I'm over I realize why they had all these things it was to try and keep people on the straight and narrows sometimes. But it was so crazy but you know some of the things that I heard to try and keep kids away from watering holes so they went drowned and other things that was their way of trying to get us to not be stupid sometimes. And the rest of it was it was just a fear factor. To try and convert everybody. Because I think it's important

[@newsandviews4595]

And this was in the 70s.

[@sierravista9013]

Some were actually healers

[@SylviaBarela-fp7ze]

La Luz nm after the Garcia family moved there

[@psalm91.777]

Both grandmas one from ranchos de taos and one from Albuquerque

[@sierravista9013]

That's true

[@darrenharrison1351]

New Mexico Territories, witchcraft, started,when war started.witchcraft is still practicing,is scared

[@clydebeck1925]

HIJO; MIRE NO MAS!.... ES QUE, what with 50% of HISPANICS IN NEW MEXICO, AND ON a TV show called "COLORES"(A Spanish Word); "they" can't EVER EVEN HIRE A PRETTY, LOCAL "CHICANA" for this "public television station"?!!!!!.....

[@alro11]

those Franciscan priests sheeesh

[@DanielABQNM]

The Spanish Inquisition caused much hysteria, too, from 1478 to 1834, then there was the leftover misplaced good intentions and over-zealous righteousness. $.02

[@lawrencetrujillo65]

ooie koko!

[@familyplan979]

The interviewer is a clown.

[@frankieblea5614]

Sana, sana, colita de rana!

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