Goat Head Found In Brooklyn Park /// OG Mysticism Alive and Well?
Way back in 2004 a black metal band known as Gorgoroth played a show in Krakow, Poland. As Wikipedia tells it: “[T]he band displayed sheep heads on stakes, a bloodbath […]
Mysterious (Though Probs Shouldn’t Have Been Touched) “Thing” Found in Old Trinity Cemetery
Scouting NY is a fantastic site that we should all be thankful for, as it covers hidden and not-so-hidden locations in and around the NYC area. And recently, Sir Scout […]
The Passion of Christ the Dice Thrower
I picked up this amazing depiction of Christ’s crucifixion for a $1.50 at the San Lazaro Botanica at 127 Rivington St. the other day. Now, I like to think that I have a good handle on the signs and symbols of religious iconography, and while some of the symbols are […]
St. Lazarus Among the Sponges
I came across this larger-than-life San Lazaro (AKA the biblical Lazarus, AKA the other biblical Lazarus, AKA Babalu Aye) while wandering in and out of botanicas in the Lower East […]
ANOTHER SANTERIA WITCH HUNT?
One of our local neighborhoody blogs, The Ditmas Park Blog, re-posted a photo story by Brooklyn Photos which documents some beheaded chickens(?)/pigeons(?) in our lovely little Prospect Park. Of course, the immediate response was one of finger-pointing at the Latin American/West African Santeria community, because apparently white kids never do […]
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