Rituais manuscritos: cura, benzedura e performances rituais entre imigrantes alemães no sul do Brasil

The present article intends to explore the religious practices from a German immigrant village in Southern Brazil. In this community, recipes to cure people and animals, ways of solving daily problems, and ritual descriptions are transmitted via manuscripts, which are written in German by the practitioners of this tradition. A deeper study of such manuscripts revealed that they are connected to texts that can be found even during the medieval period in Germany. This paper will focus on how such practices are used in the daily life of this community, the ways in which they are transmitted, and its connections to German publications, especially between the 18th and 19th century.