This essay examines some of the features of the popular Colombian political culture of the second half of the nineteenth century, chiefly among groups of artisans who were a sort of elite among the people of the village. One of the most disturbing and unfamiliar political culture of this phenomenon was the popular spiritualist. This underlines the importance of a phenomenon that could help us understand, for example, the syncretism of the socialists and anarchists of the early twentieth century.