| Summary: | Four women, two mestizas and two zambas were accused of superstition and witchcraft before the highest court of appeal of the Real Audiencia de Charcas in La Plata the year 1824, which means, some months before the formal birth of Bolivia as an independent Republic. The court document here analyzed and faced to its broader context, reveals that the liberal, eclectic and secular political breakdown involved a long process of readjustment and change of concerns and attitudes, played daily by the entire Charqueño-Bolivian population of different status and through multiple mechanisms of adaptation and resistance. The use of justice it’s shown, and the debate between different positions of literate authorities and the argumentation of village women, which would receive the Republic in 1825 from its socio-cultural complex heterogeneity.
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