Occultist Stone debuts with a thorough and illuminating introduction to Santa Muerte, the “Mexican female folk saint of death.” Stone covers the practices and concepts central to the Santa Muerte folk ...

Curious about La Santa Muerte? Mexico's Death Saint has become very popular in recent years — but do you really know what she ...

Since appearing as a public shrine in 2001, the female death deity’s popularity has exploded and is a frequent sight in ...

The prayer in Spanish sounded like one from an ordinary Catholic Mass. But the man who led it wore a coyote-skin headdress and called himself the last of 13 generations of brujos-- witch doctors -- in ...

Editor’s Note: Laura Roush, an anthropology professor at Mexico’s Colegio de Michoacán, has extensively studied the Santa Muerte devotion in Mexico. The views expressed are her own. Mexico City CNN — ...

The case,US v. Medina-Copete and Goxcon-Chagal, unfolded on June 28 2011, when New Mexico State Police Sergeant Arsenio Chavez pulled over a truck with Nevada plates on I-40 in Albuquerque for failing ...

State Highway Patrol troopers stopped an eastbound tractor-trailer on Interstate 70 near Cambridge last month for swerving and having a broken tail light. When they talked to the driver, Efrain Gama ...

Every morning before opening her shop to customers, Cristina Perez says “buenos días” to a green-cloaked, three-foot skeleton covered in dollar bills — offerings folded in triangles and taped to the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A follower in New Orleans built a public shrine in her honor. An actor in Albuquerque credits her with helping him land a role on the TV show “Breaking Bad.” She turns up routinely ...