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Interesting Religion Stories? — Brooklynian

Interesting Religion Stories?

conor
conor
edited November -1 in Park Slope
Anyone know any interesting Park Slope religion stories? The kind of thing that will surprise and delight readers and win me a Pulitzer Prize?

Seriously, any tips or ideas are appreciated.

Comments

  • steve
    steve
    why do you ask?
  • idlewild
    idlewild
    When I was growing up on Park Place between Vanderbilt and Carlton there was a lady who lived in one of the houses near the barbershop. We called her "The Voodoo Lady". Every morning/afternoon she would stand on the front of her stoop and wave a broom or other kind of stick and recite chants. She kept a few rabbits in cages for sacrifices in the front yard. I believe she mave thrown some acid all over he husbands body because he came home late and drunk.
  • robo_chic
    robo_chic
    Not a PS story, but I still think it's funny as hell.

    I used to date a guy whose parents were from Puerto Rico and very religiou.

    He swears he was a very bad kid (hard to believe when you see him as a 40 year old), and that his mother was at the end of her rope with what to do with him.

    One day when he was about 5-6 she told him that they were going to visit a lady's house and that the lady had a bunch of puppies he could play with. He was really excited.

    The go to the house, there are no puppies. The lady was a voodoo priestess and she grabbed him by the ankles, held him upside down and shook him while chanting all kinds of stuff to "get the devil out of him".

    It still makes me giggle :lol:
  • idlewild
    idlewild
    My mom would tell me stories about how her old time relatives (Jews from E. Europe) would both your ears, hard, after you sneezed to get rid of the evil spirits occupying your body. Makes for a great excuse when one feels like pulling on another's ears.
  • quijibo
    quijibo
    i remember as a kid, about 2 years old

    being taken to a local voodoo doctor in ecuador.
    i was sick with a fever that wouldn't go away

    the voodoo doc broke a few eggs over my stomach as i lay crying on the table
    —rubbed some herbs into the eggs
    burnt some other herbs and chanted some strange crap over and over again

    scared the beejezers out of me — i can still smell the herbs she rubbed on my stomach. :oops:
    i got better :wink:
  • seven24
    seven24
    I've been traumatized for life because of organized religion
    as a child my family "converted" from catholic to born again christian
    and I saw exorcisms on a handful of people.
    the pastor would lay his hands on the "possesed" person and one guy started vomiting violently and one lady rolled all over the ground and smashed har head on the alter and there was blood everywere
    some of the people would speak in tongues in the devils voice like the
    movie the exorcist....very creepy
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