Occultist Stone debuts with a thorough and illuminating introduction to Santa Muerte, the “Mexican female folk saint of death.” Stone covers the practices and concepts central to the Santa Muerte folk ...

Santa Muerte (Saint of Death or Our Holy Lady of Death) is a Mexican folk saint whose devotion has significantly increased over the past few decades. Known for her skeletal figure and association with ...

Guadalupe Lopez says a soft prayer in Spanish as the scent of incense fills her living room, rising from a shrine of more than two dozen cloaked statues. Their faces could not look further from the ...