Jazmín Casimiro

The next generation

Jazmín Casimiro belongs to the youngest working generation of the Casimiro family of Huautla de Jiménez — the Mazatec lineage of the grandmother Julieta Casimiro and her daughter Eugenia Casimiro. She guides the velada, the night-long Mazatec ceremony of the niños santos, continuing a practice her family has held across generations.

Why this matters

It is easy to write about the sacred mushroom as though it belonged to the past — to María Sabina, to the mid-century visitors, to history. Naming a living, younger practitioner like Jazmín Casimiro is a deliberate correction: the Mazatec tradition is not a closed chapter but an unbroken thread, still carried forward today by the family that inherited it.

A fourth generation of the holy children

Jazmín stands in a line that runs back through Eugenia to the grandmother Julieta, and beyond her to the mother-in-law who first placed the niños santos in Julieta’s hands — a chain of women teaching women, hand to hand, in the same town where the world first came looking. That inheritance is the whole point: the mushroom’s story in Huautla is not a relic guarded in an archive but a living craft, passed down a family, meant to keep going long after the cameras have left.