Benzedeira
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A female faith healer. Normally uses blessed items like water, plants, and other items that are believed to remove bad spirits or bad energy from a person.
Are normally paid to perform a short ritual, where they may pass their hands over the person as if removing the energies from the person.
Associated with the spiritism, but also related to communities from Amazon and from the rural areas.
Examples
- Mas você tá muito zicado hein? Por que você não vai na benzedeira Mãe Nhanha?
- Boa ideia, precisando tirar a zica mesmo.