Parenting.com: Tu me hiciste brujeria, or a kid and some altars
Maria is leaving little altars everywhere.
from the post:
“You see, when you grow up Cuban in Miami and your neighbors sacrifice goats to please the gods, a few relatives and friends channel dead people, and your aunt leaves offerings of rum, sweets and tobacco on an altar before a 4-foot-tall statue of a saint, you tend not to take any chances. You step around those discarded bags. You learn to respect it all, because who knows, it may not be crazy after all.”
Cutlines and details for the pictures are on the Flickr page...
In honor of brujeria, here’s a classic salsa song about being bewitched, “Tu me hiciste brujeria!”
Great song!
que tu me tienes temblando de noche y de dia
Oh that’s so cool! Yo Soy un Bruja (sort of) Not in the way you are supersititious of them but in the modern neo-pagan sort of way.
Altars are normal in my choice of religion and it’s cool to see a child putting them up on her own, without having seen them all over herself.