This versa article on the work performed by
the sellers of herbs to scent bath production and
therapeutic products called "potions" in Belém do
Pará from 1830 to 1890, it aims to revamp, based on
newspaper documents, minutes and decrees, ie the
historiography concerning women who worked with
herbs and therapeutic potions in public fairs of
Bethlehem between years 1830 to 1890, during which
great are newspaper reports of this occupation and its
conflicting relations, and, so is able to make an
important contribution to the urban history of this
period in Belém do Pará. Thus, I seek to present as
were developing these professional activities that
confirm the presence of african nature of religions, or
shamanism since the nineteenth century and took place
as possible conflicts around this occupation in
Bethlehem. In addition to analyzing the profession of
ganhadeiras under an optical unlike many other views
in various regions of Brazil and even in Pará, since
most of the reference studies on ganhadeiras is to
analyze proposal -Las on food bias, this research is
given by the documentary eye on the meaning of work
and the symbolization smelling bath products, herbal
potions and herbs and propose a relationship between
these sales and the presence of religions of African
origin in Amazon or even own shamanism in the urban
area, that is, in the Amazon metropolis.
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