Palo mayombe is a solitary religion, practiced secretly, with no houses of worship and no way of counting worshippers. Born of the ancient spirit worship of the Congo, it was brought first to Cuba … ...

Human sacrifice is not unheard of in the black-magic religion of palo mayombe. “It’s unusual, but it’s not surprising,” said palo expert Dr. Charles Wetli. “Human sacr… ...

In Palo Mayombe, offerings are made to the gods in a ceremonial cauldron known as a “nganga,” which contains consecrated sticks and bones. While these are most often sourced from animals, followers of ...

Based on his book, Cauldron of Blood, about the Matamoros murders in 1989, he correctly deduces that the nganga pot and some other things found at the site of the Dallas murders were derived from ...

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Part of the Palo Mayombe ritual is to tuck a brown piece of paper with a person's name and a date into the skull. It is meant to target someone with the magic of the ritual, Warren said. He said ...

The men were practicing Palo Mayombe, a religion that branches off of Santeria and was developed in Cuba among enslaved Central Africans, police said. IE 11 is not supported.

Sacrificial Ritual Site With Machetes, Animal Remains, Human Skull Found in NW Miami-Dade It's a site for rituals performed by practitioners of the Palo Mayombe religion, Richard Couto says ...