At Nossa Senhora's house, I drank "mocororó" that was prepared by the enchanted

Abstract

In the Terreiro de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, located in the city of Manaus - AM, the enchanted woman, Cabocla Mariana, annually presides over the mocororó ritual in her honor and in devotion to the terreiro's patron saint. Using the principles of participation, cutting, equivalence, and crossroads in the cults of saints and the enchanted, especially the Catholic and the enchanted, this work looked at how these cults can be interconnected so that there is equivalence between them and the mocororó ritual takes place. It is also with the aim of recording the practices involved in the mocororó ritual and recovering the history of the rites practiced in the enchantment of the Amazon region that this study is essential. Through participant observation and the tradition of memories, combined with a religious ethnography, I understood that as well as promoting the socialization of its participants, the mocororó ritual has cultural and religious importance because it is an ancestral heritage from the Northeast.