Episode: Teso dos Bichos
This is the "X-Files" yage episode. Various concoctions that pass as "yage" in South America, but they all cause extreme hallucinations and not recommended for use by non medicine people or without the supervision of a medicine person. Evidently Dr. Alonso Billac (Vic Trevino) didn't get that memo. In any case, something is killing off members of an archaeological dig from the highlands of Ecuador who dug up the remains of a very revered medicine woman and transported them back to DC. There is talk of a Jaguar Spirit...
A lot of X-Files fans HATE this episode, but then again, a whole lot of hard core X-Files fans hate most of the stand alone episodes that deviate from the conspiracy plot that ran through the 9 seasons that it was on the air. I don't find it boring, badly written, badly acted or stupid at all. The one that that the show did not back away from was Native American issues and traditional Native American monsters. The Jaguar Spirit is one of the oldest, most wide spread of those spirits. I know, it is a stretch that the Jaguar Spirit decides to kill people through the medium on house cats, but nothing is perfect really.
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| An "Olmec" Jaguar Spirit |
Pardon the Scandanavian subtitles!
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