THE
ARCANE
ARCHIVE
a cache of usenet and other text files pertaining
to occult, mystical, and spiritual subjects.


TOP | OCCULTISM | MAGIC | FOLK | LATIN AMERICAN

Santisima Muerte

To: alt.lucky.w
From: catherine yronwode 
Subject: Santisima Muerte
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 04:15:22 GMT

Eoghan Ballard wrote:
> 
> "Santisima"? so this figure is female? I didnt realise that.. 
> interesting!
> 
> It isn't. The term is a product of Spanish grammar.

Well, that may be, but in Austin Texas, down at Cantu's Herbaria, they
sure told me that La Santisima Muerte is a SHE and told me the long
story of how she keeps men faithful to their wives and will kill men who
violate the sanctity of marriage if called upon to do so, because her
husband was unfaithful to her and she hates all unfaithful men.  The
shop owner, Mrs. Cantu, even took me in a corner, away from my husband
and taught me how you perfom a seven-knot spell for La Santisima Muerte
-- it's about the same as the hoodoo nine knot spell for a Nation Sack,
but you keep the knotted string around her statue, for safe-keeping. And
after that, she gave me a Santisima Muerte holy medal as a gift and
told me with smiling eyes to not let my husband see it. And down in San
Jose, California, at Dos Aguas [sp?] Botanica, she's a SHE and women
perform a novena to her to keep men faithful. And in Sebastopol,
California, at the Flea Market, where i first encountered her image on a
novena booklet, which cost $9.00, i asked the old woman selling it, in
my broken ugly Spanish: "La Santisima Meurte -- la razon por la que?
[gesture of praying hands] Por que ... oracion? -- and she replied,
"Matrimonio." 

So... well, Eoghan, that's how it is in these parts. This may be a
Mexican belief, and thus not found in Cuba. I consider the stories of
her death and subsequent connection to the living to be similar in some
ways to stories of La Llorona, the weeping woman who mourns for her
children, and who is a popular figure along the Texas, Arizona, and
California border.

By the way, Lucky, i picked up a little Santisima Muerte plastic figure
for you if you want it. There's no markup, cause you're a friend, so
just call and ask for the price (a few bucks) and i'll send it right to
you.  

cat yronwode 

Hoodoo in Theory and Practice -- http://www.luckymojo.com/hoodoo.html

The Arcane Archive is copyright by the authors cited.
Send comments to the Arcane Archivist: tyaginator@arcane-archive.org.

Did you like what you read here? Find it useful?
Then please click on the Paypal Secure Server logo and make a small
donation to the site maintainer for the creation and upkeep of this site.

The ARCANE ARCHIVE is a large domain,
organized into a number of sub-directories,
each dealing with a different branch of
religion, mysticism, occultism, or esoteric knowledge.
Here are the major ARCANE ARCHIVE directories you can visit:
interdisciplinary: geometry, natural proportion, ratio, archaeoastronomy
mysticism: enlightenment, self-realization, trance, meditation, consciousness
occultism: divination, hermeticism, amulets, sigils, magick, witchcraft, spells
religion: buddhism, christianity, hinduism, islam, judaism, taoism, wicca, voodoo
societies and fraternal orders: freemasonry, golden dawn, rosicrucians, etc.

SEARCH THE ARCANE ARCHIVE

There are thousands of web pages at the ARCANE ARCHIVE. You can use ATOMZ.COM
to search for a single word (like witchcraft, hoodoo, pagan, or magic) or an
exact phrase (like Kwan Yin, golden ratio, or book of shadows):

Search For:
Match:  Any word All words Exact phrase

OTHER ESOTERIC AND OCCULT SITES OF INTEREST

Southern Spirits: 19th and 20th century accounts of hoodoo, including slave narratives & interviews
Hoodoo in Theory and Practice by cat yronwode: an introduction to African-American rootwork
Lucky W Amulet Archive by cat yronwode: an online museum of worldwide talismans and charms
Sacred Sex: essays and articles on tantra yoga, neo-tantra, karezza, sex magic, and sex worship
Sacred Landscape: essays and articles on archaeoastronomy, sacred architecture, and sacred geometry
Lucky Mojo Forum: practitioners answer queries on conjure; sponsored by the Lucky Mojo Curio Co.
Herb Magic: illustrated descriptions of magic herbs with free spells, recipes, and an ordering option
Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers: ethical diviners and hoodoo spell-casters
Freemasonry for Women by cat yronwode: a history of mixed-gender Freemasonic lodges
Missionary Independent Spiritual Church: spirit-led, inter-faith, the Smallest Church in the World
Satan Service Org: an archive presenting the theory, practice, and history of Satanism and Satanists
Gospel of Satan: the story of Jesus and the angels, from the perspective of the God of this World
Lucky Mojo Usenet FAQ Archive: FAQs and REFs for occult and magical usenet newsgroups
Candles and Curios: essays and articles on traditional African American conjure and folk magic
Aleister Crowley Text Archive: a multitude of texts by an early 20th century ceremonial occultist
Spiritual Spells: lessons in folk magic and spell casting from an eclectic Wiccan perspective
The Mystic Tea Room: divination by reading tea-leaves, with a museum of antique fortune telling cups
Yronwode Institution for the Preservation and Popularization of Indigenous Ethnomagicology
Yronwode Home: personal pages of catherine yronwode and nagasiva yronwode, magical archivists
Lucky Mojo Magic Spells Archives: love spells, money spells, luck spells, protection spells, etc.
      Free Love Spell Archive: love spells, attraction spells, sex magick, romance spells, and lust spells
      Free Money Spell Archive: money spells, prosperity spells, and wealth spells for job and business
      Free Protection Spell Archive: protection spells against witchcraft, jinxes, hexes, and the evil eye
      Free Gambling Luck Spell Archive: lucky gambling spells for the lottery, casinos, and races