Aurelio Carreras
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The velada was held on the night of <b>Saturday, 15 August 1953</b> stretching into the early hours of the following day, in Huautla de Jimenez, Oaxaca. We were talking with one of our best informants in <b>Huautla, don Aurelio Carreras</b>, a one-eyed butcher. […] He had furnished us with entheogenic mushrooms of two species and clearly meant us well. He had no success in finding shaman […] As we chatted with Aurelio, quite casually, don Roberto asked,
‘And tell us, Aurelio, when you give treatments (hace curaciones), are they successful?’
‘Always’, he answered.
For days we had been talking to a cotacine (‘one-who-knows’ in Mazatec, ‘shaman’) all unawares.
~ Gordon Wasson
Gordon Wasson in Persephone’s Quest, Yale University Press, 1986, ISBN: 0-300-05366-9
pp. 33-35</p>