Peru: The Shaman of Nueve de Octubre

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This is a fairly accurate story about part of the "authentic" Peruvian wasca culture and some of their beliefs.
I will be in the Pacaya-Samiria soon and look forward to posting my own entries.8)

http://www.saexplorers.org/magazine/featured-articles/peru-the-shaman-of-nueve-de-octubre/

Deep in the Peruvian Amazon, in the small village of Nueve de Octubre, I visited a shaman named Liborio. Tucked along the banks of one of the Amazon River’s largest tributaries, Nueve de Octubre is home to a few hundred of the 42,000 people who live within the government-run Pacaya-Samiria Reserve.
Here, as in most villages in the area, shamans play an important role in the everyday lives of the ribereños – the local term for floodplain farmers and fishermen.