I found an entertaining news article from UPI earlier. Here’s my favorite part:
Police told newspaper they had not identified the owner of the house, but George Bengal, director of law enforcement for the Pennsylvania SPCA said, “This is a huge find,” adding that Santeria cultists “usually take the skull and the feet and the blood and drain the blood from the animal. They’ll drink the blood and use the skull and feet as part of the altar.”
How funny!
How pentagrams and altars made of primate bones got associated with Santeria seemed odd enough… but to the claim that people in Santeria usually drink animal blood and use the bones for altars seems absolutely bizarre and unfounded… But, then again, I guess if you label every weirdo as a “Santeria cultist”, there is quite a lot of trends you can claim are common between them versus, you know, ACTUAL practitioners involved in the religion. But I guess I can’t be too hard on the guy. I mean, he works for the SPCA. I’m sure, like PETA, they don’t take kindly to anyone involved in animal sacrifices. I get that. I just wish they were educated enough to know when something is a result of Santeria and when it’s simply the result of nut-jobs.
Will probably cover this one a bit more in-depth during the next podcast.
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