NEW MEXICO HISTORY IN 10 MINUTES - EP 36 - ABIQUIU WITCHES!

Join State Historian of New Mexico Robert Martinez and enjoy his series, New Mexico History in 10 Minutes! The Abiquiu Witches of 1760!

[@geraldomartinez146]

Thanks Robert, we appreciate your work and contributions and willingness to share. 👍🏼

[@davidbaca329]

If you want to learn more about Abiquiu witches please read The Witches of Abiquiu by Malcolm Ebriight and Rick Hendricks.Chapter 3 covers For Juan Jose Toledo and Chapters 6, 7, 8 , 10, and 11 the Witchcraft Trials.

[@nancythewaterchick8181]

I am so happy to have found this channel, thank you for this!

[@robmartinez7517]

You are welcome, thank you, Nancy!

[@nancythewaterchick8181]

@@robmartinez7517 I was raised in a very NM family and have traveled the world bragging about our multicultural state, you make us shine! I am white but raised very closely with Jemez and Zia, I love NM ❤

[@lmaries8102]

My grandma in San Luis was a wealth of stories about brujas and duendes and espiritus. Guaranteed to settle us down at bedtime when we wouldn't settle. The telling is so much better in Spanish! Thank you!

[@johnbrian118]

I would like to hear!

[@ben8405]

Witches in Wyoming too!

[@justjenbu]

I live in Salem, MA and have roots in New Mexico. This was very interesting how it parallels the Salem witch hysteria.

[@ben8405]

Wow! There are witches.

[@baroncastillo]

That was great! Also, I heard the term “Bruja” came from when people in New Mexico were looking for suspicious neighbors, they saw through windows Jewish women on Friday that were bringing in the Shabbat, women were waiving their hands over their eyes and over the Candle reciting the Hebrew blessing: Bah-rookh ah-tah ah-doh-noi... They heard the “Bah-rookh ah” And that’s where they got the term “Bruja”?

[@robmartinez7517]

Thanks, Baron!

[@Imadeaplaylistforthat]

No. Bruja means witch in spanish

[@baroncastillo]

@@Imadeaplaylistforthat Exactly, I’m explaining how the word was created.

[@josephschaumberg4136]

Awesomely lecture

[@deborahc.clokey]

wow interesting. I was born and raised in Santa Fe.

[@dannyroybal7394]

La Mano Negra O La Cosa Mala Tambien Son Cuentos De Mi Joventud.

[@psalm91.777]

I have to say my family still has these hardcore beliefs.

[@aargh42g5]

Very interesting! I had a friend who lived in Talpa that told stories of witches and spirits. And another friend from Taos, where I grew up, that told me about seeing a fireball cross the road that was supposed to be a witch, but they would only come out on Thursdays...

[@philtorres2975]

I'm originally from Talpa and have heard many stories about brujas and dwendes. Have never seen either of them but many unusual stories about other such happenings. The term las bruhitas de Talpa is a result of a coven of bruhas that used to meet behind what used to be a dance hall that belonged to the J N Vigil family and to the West of the Nuestra Senora de San Juan Chapel. Many more stories about the subject exist in Talpa , Ranchos & Taos in general.

[@newsandviews4595]

As a child my mom would not let me accept a gift from a lady from there saying she was a bruja. smh.

[@bubbafett225]

Why I look at Catholicism differently, from carrying out atrocities against the one half of my indigenous roots, I wished there were more natives living and around to better represent the New Mexico area. Goal in my lifetime is to see a native Americans president

[@Daniel_Antonio_Arellano782]

I remember when people would talk or basically gossip about people being witches or satanists. It was mostly geared towards people who had mental issues. Or people they didn't like. The rejected these people and hated them. It was pretty ugly.