Case file · Witch trials
Luzia Pinta, calundu healer of Sabará
Luzia Pinta, a freed woman born in Angola, led calundu healing ceremonies in Sabará, Minas Gerais, in which she fell into trance to diagnose illness. She was arrested and tried by the Lisbon Inquisition in 1742–44.
1742 CE · -19.89, -43.81 · status: official
The account
Witnesses described drumming, special clothes and her possession by spirits. She was tortured and exiled within Portugal. Historians see calundu as an ancestor of Candomblé.
Connections in the atlas
- The 'Witches of Guaratuba' (Evandro case)
- Casa Branca do Engenho Velho listed as heritage
- First Inquisition visitation, Salvador