As Meigas
Galicia's ambivalent wise women — keepers of herb-craft and the undoing of the evil eye. 'Haberlas, hainas.'
Distinct from the otherworldly moura, the meiga is human: the village threshold-woman of Galicia, holder of herb-lore, healing, the evil eye and its undoing. Feared and consulted in the same breath, she is the living lineage-keeper of serpent-knowledge — the one who remembers what the stones hold and how to speak to it. Galicia's proverbial verdict on witches is the most Galician sentence ever coined: 'Haberlas, hainas' — as for their existing, exist they do.
The SGE Reading
Gift stage in human form: ambivalent knowledge held responsibly at the edge of the village — feared because real.
Canon Resonance
Doña Flor's Galician sister: the human keeper who knows which egg goes to whom, and when.
A Micro-Practice
Identify the threshold-keeper in your own lineage — the aunt, the grandmother, the healer. Record one thing they knew.
Sources & Respect
Galician ethnography and folklore of meigas and curandeiras.