How To Use Curandera In A Sentence

When she eventually recovers, she apprentices to become a curandera, and in a slow, agonizing manner, falls in love with a native American woman.
When she was 14 years old ‘the universal energy was passed’ to her in a ritual led by an aunt who was a curandera and espiritista.
Pilsen has its charms and all (I have an excellent curandera whose botanica is on Cermak Road), but I've never lived there, gone to school there or spent much time there, like the overwhelming majority of the approximately 800,000 Chicago Latinos who call the city limits home, or the other million or so Chicago metro region Hispanics! Esther J. Cepeda: Dispelling the Hispanic Chicago Pilsen Myth: We're - GASP! - Everywhere
I guess someone paid a curandera to come smudge the locker room with sage or something, because damn, did the team's luck turn. Elizabeth Engel: LOLskins, Indeed
Though I recently featured Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton in a Poetry Dispatch, occasionally a critic out there (including my old Yaqui Village friend, Judith Wiker — poet, singer, songwriter, curandera/Eastern healing arts) reminds me: Where are all the women? Carol ann duffy | mrs. rip van winkle & valentine « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

I've learned a lot from this community at a time in my life when I needed them, in particular from a well-respected world-renowned 72-year-old curandera and master healer who now almost feels like an adoptive mom to me. Christine Buckley: Hot Springs, Arkansas: The Best Kept Secret In America
A previously mentioned curandera, a mestiza called la Gachupina, working in Tepeji del Río in the late eighteenth century used prayers and orations to solicit the help of Jesus, the Virgin of Guadalupe, and San Antonio de Padua among others when applying herbal remedies. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
Another friend who's Latina occasionally consults her curandera, and my Catholic aunt still trusts in the cures of shamans.
Can you tell me a little bit about your relationship with the curandera you met in Mexico? Dr. Irene S. Levine: Life is a Trip: Finding Friends in Strange Places