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In this special partner episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, with Condé Nast Traveler’s Women Who Travel Podcast, we visit Mexico to hear about the country’s long history of female healers and explore Denmark’s brutal history of witch burnings. For more from Women Who Travel, visit their website

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An Indigenous Mexican healer, known as a <em>curandera</em>, performs a ritual at El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, a living history museum in New Mexico.
An Indigenous Mexican healer, known as a curandera, performs a ritual at El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, a living history museum in New Mexico. Larry Lamsa/CC BY 2.0