mike-peace:

pylertalma:

pylertalma:

infinitywithoutparallel:

pylertalma:

My mom sent me a tiny man that I have to bury in the ground. Catholicism is wild

Wtf does this mean

I’m moving and selling my house and apparently there’s a patron saint of home selling and you literally bury this tiny man in front of your house to help sell it

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This is actually common to some brazillian branches of Catholicism, using small figures of saints and religious itens to do what is basically witchcraft.

Yep.

Ironic, isn’t it?

One of the most famous is putting a figure of Saint Anthony of Padua in a cup of water, head first.

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Why we’re drowning this little man? (And baby jesus????)

Simple.

To get some booty, that’s why.

Basically, the idea is that you’re torturing this saint until they help you find a suitable candidate for dating/marrying and until you get dat booty, Saint Anthony ain’t getting any fresh air.

There’s like, a thousand of those little rituals (they call them Sympathies just to not call them what they actually are, witchcraft), each coming from a different region of Brazil and it can get insane.