These people were considered in the same way as the healers, who were outside the official medicine in the mother country, thus being branded as "quack doctors", "swindlers" and "tricksters", who, by means of rituals based upon superstitions, exploited the popular lack of "scientific" culture.
Estas personas eran consideradas de forma similar a los sanadores que en la metrópoli estaban al margen de la medicina oficial siendo, por tanto, tachados de 'curanderos', 'charlatanes' y 'estafadores' que por medio de ritos basados en supersticiones explotaban la falta de cultura 'científica' popular.