Santeria In The Area

It is actually very popular with the Hispanic community here in Brooklyn.

i came across a decapitated white dove in a wooded area of the park about a year ago. it was surrounded by other evidence of ritual, although i can't recall what--some burned areas on the ground, flowers, that sort of thing. i wouldn't know if it's santeria or voodoo though.

I bet Cathy, at Shambala Yoga Center, would know a santero...Or, Hialeeja at the Post Office place at the corner of Prospect Place and washington ave...

We've come across remnants in Prospect Park (chicken feet, actually)
and very often at Coney Island, offerings to the sea. It's pretty cool.

I found in Mexico people were way more willing to share their religious thing - who they were pledged to etc - because the assumption was not exploitation or ridicule.

Are you researching or looking for some work done?

chinese dim sum places serve chicken feet at lunch. does this count as santeria-related?

i just got back from vancouver where i had chicken feet for dim sum w/ the ankles connected. not only the feet!


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I was heading up a volunteer clean-up in Prospect Park a few years back and a few volunteers stumbled across a shrine of sorts in the woods, but probably not santeria.

There was a machete stuck in the ground with beads and a plastic skeleton hanging off it. With some digging around, some bones were discovered. The police were called, the area was taped off in a "Law & Order" kind of way with chain smoking detectives hanging around whilst others took pictures. They bagged the bones as evidence, with one cop chiming in that one "might be a human rib." The cops were blase over the whole thing saying they "see this shit all the time," often with human bones "borrowed" from graves.

I also came across a bonafide santeria set-up at another Bronx park clean-up. This was the real deal with dozens of slaughtered chickens, cigars, coconut shells, cigars and piles of fruit and candles. Some volunteers were freaked out while other braver sorts shovelled the stuff up and shoved it into heavy black garbage bags along with the usual litter of beer bottles, newspapers and take-out trays.

religious diversity fun in the city, hmm?

I've heard about rituals being done in the Atlantic Yards (and on the bridges over them). But I think those are voodoo, at least from the cross-roads/transportation point aspect. I know nothing about Santeria and little about Voodoo, so I may be talking out of my ass.

One guy I worked with said he'd seen dead chickens and such a few times over there. But I've never seen any.