Among the Volcanoes | Other Characters
Eziquel Coxol
Eziquel is the sanjorin, or town healer. He is an older man, in his sixties, with as much energy and vigor as an adolescent. His medicine is based on the principles of appeasing the traditional gods, casting spells, and performing rituals. Isabel describes him as "mystical" and imagines him as "someone who spoke directly to the gods and who had power over the bric-a-brac of nature.’’
Not until he has exhausted every treatment he knows does he agree that perhaps Manuela, Isabel's mother, should visit the Western doctors in Sololá. Due...
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