The life and trials of Paula de Eguiluz illustrate the concept of how African traditions were integrated into Colonial Latin America, changing and transforming the fabric of the society it impacted. Additionally, Paula provides for us an interesting view on how the society that emerged out of the Afro-Latino society created an environment in which witchcraft was a very real phenomenon, a notion fostered and encouraged by traditional African beliefs and yet tempered and transformed by the mentality of the new world.
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