As Meigas
*Haberlas, hainas* — as for their existing, exist they do. The village threshold-woman, keeper of herb-craft, healing and the undoing of the evil eye.
The meiga is the Galician wise-woman — ambivalent holder of herb-craft, healing, the evil eye and its undoing, distinct from the otherworldly moura in that the meiga is *human*. She is the village threshold-woman, the one everyone knows and no one wholly names. The proverb is famous: *haberlas, hainas* — as for their existing, exist they do. In the language of the Nine Paths, the meiga is the lineage-holder, Doña Flor's Galician sister: the human keeper of serpent-knowledge.
The SGE Reading
Gift stage as *vocation*: the moura's wisdom made portable and practical in a woman's hands, kitchen table, herb garden.
Canon Resonance
Every one of the nine women in the saga carries a meiga-function somewhere in her line.
A Micro-Practice
Name one older woman in your life (blood or chosen) who has quietly done meiga-work for you. Write her one honest sentence of thanks, and send it today.
Sources & Respect
Marisa Rey-Henningsen, *The World of the Ploughwoman*; oral tradition of Galicia.
Meigas are part of living Galician culture. Handle with tenderness, not folklore-tourism.