Bantu Religion + Kongo Shamanism in California
SOURCE : Inside India’s Underground Trade in Human Remains India has long been the world’s primary source of bones used in medical study, renowned for producing specimens scrubbed to a pristine white patina and fitted with high-quality connecting hardware. In 1985, however, the Indian government outlawed the export of human remains, and the global supply [...]
SOURCE : Nigerian govenment official spends millions on black magic to kill rival Lagos – Police have arrested the head of a federal agency charged with developing Nigeria’s impoverished southern oil region, after allegations the man spent millions of dollars on a witchdoctor in hopes of vanquishing a rival. President Umaru Yar’Adua announced on Friday [...]
Singing to the Plants: Burundanga There seems to be a new moral panic percolating through the blogosphere, this time about a mind-control date-rape zombie-making plant called borrachero, or burundanga, or devil’s breath — “the world’s most sinister drug.” Under its influence, we are told, you remain lucid and articulate yet absolutely compliant to any suggestion. [...]
SOURCE : Burundanga Drug Warning – Urban Legends Burundanga is the street version of a pharmaceutical drug called scopolamine. It is made from the extracts of plants in the nightshade family such as henbane and jimson weed. It’s a deliriant, meaning it can induce symptoms of delirium such as disorientation, loss of memory, hallucinations, and [...]
SOURCE : Resurrection Men: Stalking the Dead… Resurrection times spanned some eighty years between approximately 1750 and 1832 when the passage of the Warburton Anatomy Act brought an end to the period. During resurrection times and especially during the latter thirty years of the era citizens living in the major cities of the realm suffered [...]
SOURCE : iAbolish The American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG) is a nonprofit organization that works with former victims of human trafficking to abolish modern-day slavery, focusing primarily on systems of chattel slavery in Sudan and Mauritania. Click here to learn more about modern-day slavery and find out how you can help.
SOURCE : American Studies Journal – Brujeria and the U.S.-Mexico Border Outlaw This paper investigates the death metal band Brujeria, their use of both traditional and contemporary outlaw imagery, and their connection to the narcocorrido, in order to examine the tenacity of the outlaw paradigm as an expression of resistance by subordinate groups in situations [...]
SOURCE : Sacrifice Today, In the Andes – And Closer In reporting both the Matamoros murders and the investigation of General Manuel Noriega of Panama, the media wrongly assumed a connection between drug-running, Satanism and Afro-Caribbean religions. Santeria and Palo Mayombe were widely slandered as being devil-cults. Even Time magazine published these false innuendoes, obtained [...]
Llewellyn Worldwide is “the world’s oldest and largest New Age Publisher specializing in books, tarot decks, audio and video products.” A favorite source of information for the Wicca set, they are also (apparently) now dabbling in Afrophobic witchunt fiction: SOURCE : iCrew – Scratched Based on the non-fiction book “Scratched” due to hit the shelves [...]
SOURCE : Tanzania moves to halt albino murders – Radio Netherlands Worldwide – English Tanzania has revoked the licenses of all its traditional healers in a bid to halt the killings of albinos whose body parts are used for witchcraft. At least 40 albinos have been killed since the middle of 2007. Around 90 people [...]
