I am deeply indebted to the primary texts and secondary analysis included in Local Religion in Colonial Mexico by Martin Austin Nesvig, Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Texts and Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan by Mark Christensen, and The Witches of Abiquiu: The Governor, the Priest, the Genízaro Indians, and the Devil by Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks. I encourage readers who are interested in the facts of this period to look up overview texts like Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico: Men, Women, and War by Mark Wasserman and The Women of Mexico City,
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