INCIDENCIA DE LAS CREENCIAS SOBRE LA CURANDERÍA Y OCULTISMO EN LA CALIDAD DE VIDA DE LOS ADULTOS MAYORES DE LA FUNDACIÓN SOCIAL CRISTO REY DE LA CIUDAD DE PORTOVIEJO, PERIODO OCTUBRE-ENERO 2022

Abstract

The present investigation addressed the theme of quackery and occultism, in the improvement of the quality of life that older adults who attend the Cristo Rey Social Foundation of the city of Portoviejo have had, who have been sincere in stating that these ancestral practices they were instilled by their relatives and to which they were taken to be cured of fright, fright, bad air, muscle pain and other physical and spiritual ailments. It is necessary to indicate that the average age of these older adults ranges between 80 years, who, despite their different illnesses, took the necessary time to answer the interview that became the research technique for the collection of information on site. . It should be added that in our local environment, healers are a representative element for our society, in the context of traditional medicine, it is a mythical figure of relevance, respect and fear. Anecdotes, conjectures, extraordinary stories are built around the healer, many of them are the product of human imagination, but without a doubt, he is sought for his ability to explain the hidden, what the common human being imagines about the existence of forces that escape your reason. For physical and spiritual healing, the healer is required when discomfort appears, the feeling of illness or acute crisis in which the body denotes that something negative is being expressed in it, a series of characters with investments, functions, resources and different frames of reference appear on the horizon of the mourner: they are the healers. In the cultural practice of healing, the healer is known as: sorcerer, sorcerer, healer, shaman, herbalist, among others. In this sense, a non- experimental, qualitative methodology was used, as well as a phenomenological analysis, the conclusions of the present investigation were obtained, which glimpsed the existence of polarized thoughts, behavioral problems and the influence of third parties in the way of thinking. act on the theme of the topic. Finally, it was concluded that older adults absolutely believe in healing through the practice of quackery and the occult.