Abelardo Tut Uicah (left), a H-men (Maya shaman), carefully places maize dough cooked underground in a traditional Maya pib ahead for a Ch’a Cháak ceremony. Image courtesy of Mark Viales.

Set in the 1950s, Rough Magic tells the story of what happens when a pretty apprentice magician goes to Mexico to escape her fiancé, a wealthy politician, and to find a Mayan shaman who will ...