Definition of "curandera" []

• A woman who practices folk medicine; an herb doctor. (noun)

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• "Though I recently featured Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton in a Poetry Dispatch, occasionally a critic out there (including my old Yaqui Village friend, Judith Wiker — poet, singer, songwriter, curandera/Eastern healing arts) reminds me: Where are all the women?"
• "I guess someone paid a curandera to come smudge the locker room with sage or something, because damn, did the team's luck turn."
• "Can you tell me a little bit about your relationship with the curandera you met in Mexico?"