Santa Muerte incense, left, necklaces and a prayer book for sale at Velas y Mas on North Navarro in Victoria. Her altar can be made of anything – a statue of marble in a temple or a carving of soap in ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A follower in New Orleans built a public shrine in her honor. An actor in Albuquerque credits her with helping him land a role on the TV show “Breaking Bad.” She turns up routinely ...
That was the first question following an investigation by the Bexar County Sheriff's Office in February, in which deputies uncovered a house with suspected stolen vehicles used for a human-smuggling ...
Every morning before opening her shop to customers, Cristina Perez says “buenos días” to a green-cloaked, three-foot skeleton covered in dollar bills — offerings folded in triangles and taped to the ...
Sunny Flea Market on Airline Drive is as full of raw life as any place in the state of Texas, especially on this hot Sunday afternoon in August. Fifty thousand weekly visitors stroll its long rows of ...
It was sometime back in the early 2000s, or maybe even the late 1990s, that I started seeing them at the late beloved Dunlavy Fiesta: in the Hispanic aisle, alongside the colorful votive candles to ...
Zavaleta has seen the Santa Muerte grow in popularity in the past decade in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, spreading from altars kept secretly in homes to public displays of devotion to a saint ...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A follower in New Orleans built a public shrine in her honor. An actor in Albuquerque credits her with helping him land a role on the TV show “Breaking Bad.” She turns up routinely ...
The prayer in Spanish sounded like one from an ordinary Catholic Mass. But the man who led it wore a coyote-skin headdress and called himself the last of 13 generations of brujos-- witch doctors -- in ...
In Mexico City, a growing number of people devote themselves to the Death Saint. May 29, 2013— -- What's the one certain thing that binds us all? Death. Regardless of race and economic or social ...
MEXICO CITY – “I may be big but I’m very scared,” Jorge says as we work our way through a series of narrow streets near the historic Zocalo plaza in Mexico City. Jorge Vasquez is a longtime friend, a ...
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