Morisco healers faced demonic suspicion for succeeding where licensed doctors failed

Evidence

Ironically, and in stark contrast to judeoconverso doctors and apothecaries, it would seem that morisco medical practitioners were often accused of sorcery and supernatural medical powers because their cures kept Old Christian patients alive when other licensed and university-trained doctors had abandoned all hope of a recovery. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 411 (#expands, via linked claim)

Bleda’s principal accusation against the morisco medical practitioners in the Latin Defensio fidei was that they used their prestige and authority to spread Muslim beliefs within morisco communities. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 418 (#complicates, via linked claim)

“We had to wash the therapist’s car, clean his house and take care of his garden. He called that seva yoga. It was important to reach enlightenment, he said, and would help let go of our egos.” — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 692 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Morisco doctors were accused of sorcery for curing patients others gave up on — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 411; Morisco doctors were accused of using prestige to spread Islam — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 418; Morisco healers faced demonization but never a medical-murder conspiracy charge. — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 422 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Morisco doctors were accused of sorcery for curing patients others gave up on #expands (0.96) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 411
• Morisco doctors were accused of using prestige to spread Islam #complicates (0.72) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 418
• Fraudulent therapy cults demand unpaid labor framed as spiritual service #complicates (0.70) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 692