Doen as de feiti o: as Minas setecentistas e o imaginário das doen as Diseases from witchcraft: eighteenth century Minas Gerais captaincy/Brazil and the imaginary of the diseases

O presente artigo objetiva discutir a cren a e o consenso em torno da ideia partilhada, entre aqueles que viveram nas Minas no curso do século XVIII, de que determinados indivíduos poderiam, por meio de feiti os, provocar uma série de males. Assim, as doen as de feiti o, conforme aparecem na documenta o compulsada, pareciam bastante assíduas. Procurei igualmente analisar como eram descritos tais achaques provocados pelos feiti os: tolhimentos, dores, ligamentos, dentre outros. Estes se faziam presentes tanto nas denúncias levadas ao conhecimento de membros do clero no curso das devassas eclesiásticas (documenta o sob a guarda do Arquivo Eclesiástico da Arquidiocese de Mariana) como em tratados médicos publicados, sobretudo, nas primeiras décadas do setecentos. This article aims to discuss the belief and the consensus around the idea shared among those who lived in Minas in the course of the eighteenth century that certain individuals could, by spells, cause a variety of ailments. Thus, the spell of illness, as it appears in the documentation compelling seemed very assiduous. I also tried to analyze how they were described such ailments caused by spells: stunting, pain, ligaments, among others. These were present both in the complaints brought to the attention of members of the clergy during the wanton ecclesiastical (documentation in the custody of the ecclesiastical archives of the Archdiocese of Mariana) as published in medical treatises, especially in the first decades of the 18th century.