Brujería (Witchcraft)

Brujería is the Spanish-language word for "witchcraft". Brujería also refers to Practice-healers in the Americas (especially African Americans and the United States). Both men and women can practice; brujo(s) and bruja(s), respectively.

There is no sound etymology for this word, which appears only in Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, and Galician (other romance languages use words derived from Latin strix, -igis, originally an owl). The word may be inherited from a Celtiberian substrate or it may derive from the Latin plusscius, -a, um (> plus + scius), a hapax attested in the Cena Trimalchionis, a central part in Petronius' Satyricon.Pluscia could have arisen from rhotacization of the /l/ and voicing of the /p/, pluscia> pruscia> bruscia> bruxa (Portuguese)> bruja (Spanish).

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