Other Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship Traditional healing practitioners Tambogrande, Piura, Peru · 2025

Piura: woman dies of severe burns during 'blooming bath' ritual; healer flees

Request a correction or reply

Record class

Context only

Evidence status

Active investigation

Authority role

curandera (traditional healer) performing 'baño de florecimiento'

Organization

No organization assigned

Archive classification

This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

The victim died during a traditional ritual healing bath performed by the accused curandera under claimed spiritual/therapeutic authority over her medical complaint.

Spiritual healing or treatment

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2025-07-07 · preliminary investigation opened, suspect fugitive

Tambogrande police station / Peruvian prosecutors, Piura, Peru. Marcelina Panta Zapata, 47, died after suffering third-degree burns over nearly her entire body during a 'baño de florecimiento' (blooming bath) ritual performed by healer Sandy Chozo in Tambogrande, Piura, which she had sought for chronic leg pain. Her family filed a police report; authorities opened a preliminary investigation for culpable homicide. Chozo fled and remained a fugitive as of the most recent reporting.

Documented coercion mechanisms

claimed healing authority over the victim's chronic leg pain

Cited record

Sources

regional press death report Infobae, 'Mujer muere tras baño de florecimiento en Piura: sufrió quemaduras en el 90% del cuerpo y el curandero está prófugo' (July 9, 2025).: Reports the death, extent of burns, the healer's flight, and the opened investigation.
national broadcaster follow up report Panamericana TV, 'Curandero implicado en muerte de mujer en Piura sigue prófugo'.: Confirms the healer's continued fugitive status.

Source provenance

Source access and integrity log

This log records source retrieval and file integrity. It does not mean that an automated process independently confirmed every statement in the source.

Source and tier basis: https://www.infobae.com/peru/2025/07/09/mujer-muere-tras-bano-de-florecimiento-en-piura-sufrio-quemaduras-en-el-90-del-cuerpo-y-el-curandero-esta-profugo/ Corpus classification: regional-press; evidentiary role: death-report. SHA-256 9750586f68e442372d47581409506c5477ba838b8c95917e2d78c0b7f2789ef0
Retrieval: 2026-07-27 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger
Source and tier basis: https://panamericana.pe/buenosdiasperu/nacionales/447830-mujer-pierde-vida-someterse-bano-florecimiento-piura Corpus classification: national-broadcaster; evidentiary role: follow-up-report. SHA-256 fc03191d6b1a19b27a10c421fec8bc52194d69cb610807552371c304109fe5b0
Retrieval: 2026-07-27 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

Named in this record? Request a correction, report a changed disposition, or submit a response.

Related record

Related cases · Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship

Browse all 76 Spiritual healing, divination, and mediumship records

← Explore all cases