Wayra and the Dream Snake

Wayra and the Dream Snake

Luna Contreras

Volume 26, Number 1 (2026) 26 (1): 214-225


Keywords Indigenous healing, Dreams and spirituality, Amazon rainforest

Abstract

“Wayra and the Dream Snake” is a short story that explores dreams, illness, ancestral healing, and Indigenous understandings of the body through the journey of a young nurse in the Amazon. Blending magical realism and traditional medicine, the narrative reflects on vocation, memory, and spiritual transformation.

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