..., known as kalku , and therefore consulted ritual healers and diviners, the machi and dugul , to identify and punish the supposed evildoers. In accusing local members of being kalku , the ritual specialists expressed a precise perception of sorcery and developed clear strategies for counteracting...

...), divina- tion (pelonten), and midwifery, and there were those who performed witch- craft through the use of magical darts and poisoning (kalku) (Molina 1901 Colonial Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Power in Southern Chile 497 Figure 2. Machi countered Jesuit accusations of sorcery by claiming...