The black sorcerer Sete Cabeças

the circularity of beliefs and religiousness in the slave society of the nineteenth

Abstract

Judicial documents are excellent observatories for the analysis of cultural circulation processes, particularly those involving beliefs and religiousness. The records organized aiming the investigation of crimes and offenses (murder, assassination attempts, etc) provide information that denounce sharing sensitivities regarding the supernatural by people positioned differently in social and racial hierarchies. In addition, specific parties such as forensic records can provide us with aspects of religious culture in its materiality