A botanica in Arlington, VA selling all manner of candles, herbs, morbid figures, and more controversially, figurines of “Santa Muerte” or “Holy Death” which has strong connections to dark, narco practices in Mexico.
The “bony lady” is a favorite of Mexican and Central American drug traffickers who are known to leave the severed heads of their enemies at improvised shrines, featuring wax effigies and candles emblazoned with the skeletal image.
American law enforcement officials are documenting altars to the macabre “saint” in stash houses in border communities where Mexican drug cartel members often hold migrants for ransom.
The Catholic Church has condemned Santa Muerte worship as “blasphemous and Satanic.”
You can purchase the figure right next to a Dominos.
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