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A remote, impoverished village where education is scarce and the Catholic faith mixes with ancient indigenous superstitions. Into this vulnerable ecosystem enters a mysterious woman. She presents herself as a healer, a curandera . But soon, farmers begin dying of unexplained stomach ailments, children go missing, and a cloud of paranoia settles over the valley.

Castro Caycedo specialized in the grotesque and the marginal. He gave a voice to the victims of Colombia’s forgotten wars and a face to the criminals who operated in the shadows. "La Bruja" fits perfectly into his oeuvre: it is a deep, journalistic investigation into a series of macabre events that terrorized a specific region, exposing how superstition can lead to mass psychosis and murder. If you are looking for a fairy tale or a Harry Potter-style witch, "La Bruja" is the opposite. The book reconstructs the true story of a woman—known only as "The Witch"—who wielded power not through magic wands, but through terror, arsenic, and psychological manipulation in the rural highlands of Colombia.