... common to the community, while the other fourspecialists used only plants. Fortune-telling is probably to the shaman a way to satisfy the requests of customerscoming from cities, a symptom of ... aire’, to bathe babies’ and ‘sorcery’. Asháninka women bathed their babies in her-bal decoctions in order to protect them from illnesses and sorcery, to make them sleep, to calm them, to makethem ... stop crying, to make them obedient, to make themgrow healthy and with appetite, to make them sleep, to make them learn to walk fast. This last application indi-catesthewishofthewomenwhoneedtogoandworkin...