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| from the Witchs' Market is La Paz (stole this picture from online, as the shopkeepers don't tend to appreciate the tourist gaping and snapping photos of their livelihood sometimes) |
We spent the other night discussing ghost stories with
Carlos and Enzo, and apparently La Paz has a lot of haunted places. If you’ve
ever been to La Paz, you’ll know it’s the section of Bolivia really rich in a pagan culture. Vast majority of the
people are Roman Catholic, however many still ascribe to the beliefs of Pachamama (mother earth) as well. You can walk through the Witchs' Market and
see offerings to these gods- the mountains and the earth. These include dried baby
llama fetuses, sullu, which hang from almost every stall entrance. They
are buried into the ground as an offering before constructing a new building or
a new house. So apparently, a lot of ghosts haunt some of the larger buildings
built, when some superstitious owners offer a sacrifice more proportional to the building's size- a human. According
to the guys, there are stories of those in La Paz who will still do this, and recently a
journalist found out about a few too. They find homeless men, get them very
drunk, and them bury them alive in the foundation. Fact or fiction?
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