Women Who Live Evil Lives: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of Power in Colonial GuatemalaWomen Who Live Evil Lives documents the lives and practices of mixed race, Black, Spanish, and Maya women sorcerers, spell casters, magical healers, and midwives in the social relations of power in Santiago de Guatemala, the capital of colonial Central America. Men and women from all sectors of society consulted them to intervene in sexual and familial relations and disputes between neighbors and rival shop owners; to counter abusive colonial