EVIL, WITCHCRAFT AND LOSS OF GOODWILL RELATED TO SUICIDE AMONG THE MAYA YUCATAN

Abstract

This article raises observe the importance that exists for people of two communities in the eastern of Yucatan, Cuncunul and Chemax, the concept of evil as well as one of its causes and consequences, witchcraft and loss of will in the Yucatecan individuals, this by information disclosed in the notes field diary. The analysis of this sketch of an uncertainty that originated in the ethnographic work, which focused on knowing what people meant when they talked of evil associated with suicide; I consider stopping to observe and reflect on this concept will allow to better understand social relations and reality go around in daily life in the communities of eastern Yucatan about suicide by hanging.

Keywords

• evil
• sata ool
• suicide
• guardians