Palo mayombe is a solitary religion ... and religious and African statues nearby – stunk of decay. The pair insisted palo is used more for good than evil – contrary to the views of ...

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 sacrifice is rare ...

Others referred to them as “The Matamoros Cult,” for the border town where their compound was located, or simply “Palo Mayombe,” the name of the Afro-Cuban religion they warped to their own bloody ...

Ta-Ta Reggie is a high priest of Palo Mayombe out of Queens, N.Y. He said his religion, which originated in the African Congo, often goes misunderstood and incites fear in people who are ignorant ...

Richard Couto explains that it is a site for sacrificial rituals performed by practitioners of the Palo Mayombe religion. "They often use human remains in their ceremonial sites and that is ...

The skulls were used for a Congolese religion known as Palo Mayombe. The religion, brought to Cuba, worships a spirit with objects like shells, sticks or human bones, Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado ...

Tolentino and Burgos-Lopez were practicing Palo Mayombe, which branches off of Santeria and was developed in Cuba among enslaved Central Africans. Investigators executed a search warrant at Burgos ...

Photo courtesy of Mucho Mas Releasing. ROSARIO is a body horror film, with a dead body and a possible curse from an Afro-Cuban religion, Palo Mayombe, at the heart of it. While director Felipe Vargas’ ...