Tetlacuicuiiliqui
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Tetlacuicuiliqui.
(náhuatl) “el que saca algo a la gente”
Video HD 6’34”
2015
This video shows a “merolico” installed in a botanic garden performing his daily spectacle without talking, using pantomime instead of his word.
Merolico,
m. y f. Mex. Curandero callejero
m. y f. Mex, charlatan (‖ vendedor ambulante)
(familiar) SM (Mex) (=curandero) quack (informal); (=vendedor) street salesman
Rafael J. de Meraulyok, Swiss physician, surgeon, dentist whose name gave rise to mexicanism merolico. 1879 August, Mexico City
* nexos.com.mx/?p=15523
“Combated and applauded, quacks challenged the boundary between enlightened and popular: they make round knowledge among diverse cultural classes. In Mexico, Meraulyock root out teeth, remove dandruff, pneumonia, cough, rotten nails, eye bogger and flu. A mix of quack and actor, he finished his query amid applause and greatness…”
Artemio del Valle Arizpe (1884-1961)
tlanestli.blogspot.nl/2013/11/protomedicato-y-sus-aplicaciones.html