Buffoons and sorcerers: witchcraft, entertainment, and evil professions in colonial sources on pre-Hispanic Nahuas.

The article focuses on buffoons and sorcerers such as witchcraft, entertainment, and evil professions in colonial sources on pre-Hispanic Nahuas. It mentions examines Nahua male performers as described in the Primeros memoriales, usually attributed to Fray Bernardino de Sahagún. It also mentions indigenous performative and theatrical abilities can also be discerned in the writings of Spanish religious authors and people to and apparently did not pose any threat to Christianization enterprise.