The text will demonstrate the rationale of a woman in the activity of erotic love spells in the city of Cartagena de Indias in the seventeenth century, in its beginnings has a logic that can be explained in each of the acts of sorcery. The condition of a woman in the colonial society pushed many women of different social, cultural and economic status to seek through the magical arts an important role in the cultural development of the city of Cartagena de Indias and its province.