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woman from Icod de los Vinos has been arrested on charges of animal cruelty, desecration of graves and organising satanic ceremonies.
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sequent black masses were charged at €300. Sect members had to drink enormous amounts of alcohol, smoke cigars and kill chickens, doves and occasionally goats. The human bones were used along with animal remains, including a giant snake skin, to decorate the “altar” and for “protection from the spirits”. The arrest came after an undercover police operation in which officers filmed several of the ceremonies, held in a remote part of Icod, and this isn’t the first instance of this kind of crime in the name of the Santería sect that is an apparent amalgamation of Roman Catholic and African practices.
The 40-year-old, who is originally from La Gomera, is accused of holding regular satanic rites to “baptise” new members of her sect by slicing their arms with a sharp instrument and spilling their blood on an altar filled with the heads of various animals, sacrificed specifically for the occasion. She is also charged with opening tombs in Santa Lastenia, a Santa Cruz cemetery, to steal human bones for use in the initiation rites, for which the new members had to pay sums of €600 - €700. Sub-
The “altar” was decorated with human and animal remains
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