Cachiche
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Cachiche is a community located just four kilometers from Ica, Peru. This small village is well-know like a land of the witches and centre of witchcraft in the south of Perú. There you can get that some witches for few soles read your palm or consulting tarot card to predict your future. It is a mystery tourist place where you can see a statue of a famous witch, hear some legends and visit a strange palm with seven heads.Witche's city
Legend
According to local legend, one of the most famous witches of Cachiche was Julia Hernández Pecho Viuda de Díaz. She was known to have cured the stammer of local boy named Fernando Leon de Vivero, who later became a congressman in Lima. Tell the story, when he returned to Cachiche, he wanted to show his gratitude, so he set up a statue in form a woman with her hands stretched upward in the form of a V with both an owl and a skull at each of her sides carved out of a single huarango tree, nowadays you can visit. It popular story said that in 1987 at the age 106 Julia witch dies. On her death, this famous witch prophesized that then the seventh head of the palm tree appeared, Ica would be wiped out. The story was forgotten by long time, but in 1997 (an El Niño year) torrential rains was inundating the city. The people decided to cut off the tree’s seventh head but the flooding stopped before they did so. witches of Cachiche This palm tree is located in the centre of the village and the local people said that once upon a time it was a normal, erect tree, but under influence diabolic rituals performed nearby it has become deformed.
This place is mystical tourist destination, where you can enjoy in different ways outside of Ica city.