Description of the attraction
The Market of the Witches or Mercado de Brujas is considered one of the most unusual attractions in the city of La Paz. You can find this colorful place on the streets of Jiminez and Linares. It is interesting that behind the market, where mainly local sorcerers and shamans trade, the Iglesia de San Francisco Cathedral rises majestically. Tourists enjoy walking along the Mercado de Brujas. Even if you don't need llama embryos for witchcraft or healing, seeing them is a unique sight in itself. They say that whoever bury a llama embryo in the corner of his new home will forever save himself from various misfortunes. On the market, you will find in abundance everything that can be useful in magic and ordinary life. Huge selection of amulets that bring happiness and good luck. For example, you can buy a tiger skin that will protect you from enemies and bad luck. Dried herbs, parts of frogs and insects, seeds and other fascinating ingredients used in rituals and ceremonies are sold for various witchcraft manipulations. Many of them are designed to manipulate spirits. In addition to frogs and beetles, you will be offered extraordinary beauty silver jewelry and local bright textiles. Of course, the look of the market, its specific goods and sellers is very strange, but this is its whole charm. Tourists are advised not to take pictures in this place and not to take pictures of the goods. And then the local sorcerers can unleash their anger on them, and the inhabitants of La Paz consider this a bad omen.
