brujas
Hechiceras in Spanish
Brujas is Spanish for witches, used in English contexts to evoke Latin American or Hispanic folklore and magical traditions.
The word carries cultural weight beyond simple translation, suggesting curanderas, folk healers, or women with supernatural powers in Latino communities: The old brujas in the village knew remedies for everything.
It appears in discussions of Latinx spirituality, horror fiction, and reclaimed feminist identity.
Occupied by ghosts
- eerieDisturbingly strange
- creepyDisturbingly strange
- macabreDisturbing, death-obsessed
- sinisterThreateningly suggestive of harm
ominous · shadowy · nocturnal · dark · mysterious · spectral · chilling · uncanny
Female practitioners of magic
- enchantressesWomen who bewitch others
- spellcastersThose who work magic
- hexesMalevolent magical spells
- cursesSworn oaths or hexes
incantations · charms · cauldron · broomstick · familiar · black cat · grimoire · wicked
Traditional stories or icons
- mythologyBody of traditional tales
- folktalesTraditional oral narratives
- talesSpoken or written narratives
- loreTraditional knowledge transmitted orally
superstition · omens · La Llorona · mythic · enchantment · folk magic · old wives tales · cautionary tales
Spanish-language sorcery tradition
- shamanismMediation between worlds
- healersThose who treat ailments
- mediumsThose who contact spirits
- tarotDivination card set
divination · oracles · séance · ancestors · spirits · voodoo · hoodoo · ritual cleansing
Curved closed shape
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- sisterhoodBond among women
- assemblyConstructing from components
- collectiveJointly organized group
conclave · fellowship · commune · network · alliance · initiation · moonlit · rituals
haunted
Occupied by ghosts
sinister · ominous · shadowy · nocturnal · dark · mysterious · spectral · chilling · uncanny · frightening
sorceresses
Female practitioners of magic
- enchantressesWomen who bewitch others
- spellcastersThose who work magic
- hexesMalevolent magical spells
curses · incantations · charms · cauldron · broomstick · familiar · black cat · grimoire · wicked · crone
legends
Traditional stories or icons
- mythologyBody of traditional tales
- folktalesTraditional oral narratives
- talesSpoken or written narratives
lore · superstition · omens · La Llorona · mythic · enchantment · folk magic · old wives tales · cautionary tales · night creatures
brujería
Spanish-language sorcery tradition
tarot · divination · oracles · séance · ancestors · spirits · voodoo · hoodoo · ritual cleansing · candles
circle
Curved closed shape
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- sisterhoodBond among women
- assemblyConstructing from components
collective · conclave · fellowship · commune · network · alliance · initiation · moonlit · rituals · elder
- Venezuelan FolkloreLa Llorona, spirit worship, mountain spirits, water spirits, nature spirits
- folklorefairy tales, fairytales, folktales, folk tales, folk tale
- Latin American FolkloreLa Llorona, curandero, curandera, brujo, Quetzalcoatl
- hauntingsghosts, apparition, apparitions, ghost sighting, phantoms
brujashealers
Those who treat ailments
white witches · medicine women · shamans · protectors · curanderos
brujasmuggles
Non-initiates to specialized knowledge
mortals · skeptics · rationalists · scientists · ordinary people