Auntie continues to heal rapidly. She is having a side-effect of having a really stuffed nose, which is bugging her a lot, but I say, "Oh well. Stuffed nose for a few days as a trade-off for healing cancer? Seems like a small price to pay."
Her treatments are fascinating. (no, still can't give any details.) And we spend quite a lot of time chatting with her healer about his life, his culture, etc etc using a total of (ummmm) 5 languages. I only speak 3 languages even passably, but he is now teaching us words in his language from the jungle, plus words in Quechua, which was the language of the Incas.
Today, I asked him what happens when someone dies:
They wash the body with herbs, which preserve/mummify it. They wrap the body in three blankets, put it in a squatting or fetal position in a basket made of bamboo, and bury it in the ground facing the dawn. This is so the person can watch the sun rise. They put all of the person's jewelry in the grave, as well as their best clothes, and a serving of each of their favourite foods. This is so the person will have their things in their next life. Finally, they kill the person's pets, and put them in the grave too. This is to spare the suffering of the pet. This custom is followed all over Peru....except possibly in Lima. There, they are "spiritually corrupted" (about this, and many other things) and follow other customs such as cremation or putting coffins in crypts.

He was very clear that no one would ever wear the clothes that had belonged to a person who had died, as they would have a bad aura. It was kinda of funny, as I wearing a sweater at the time that belonged to my aunt who passed away last year. They looked a bit freaked out, but I said, "Well, she doesn't need it. And she would be happy for me to wear it. She had nice clothes, and would have hated for it all to be chukked out."
They were sceptical....