The shop is called La Botanica, and there you can find the herbs, powders, perfumes, beads, candles and statues necessary for the rituals of Santeria. A consultation with Mrs. Roig costs a modest $15, ...

A mainstay of the Mission District for 27 years, the Lucky Candles botanica at 3525 20th St. will be moving or going out of business because the new building owners will be conducting a city-mandated ...

You don't practice Santeria? You ain't got no crystal ball? Actually, you don't need one — instead, the botanicas that sell spell-casting Santeria charms specialize in candles, soaps, incense and body ...

Halloween seems to be the only time, outside of horror films, the United States culturally wanders through the brambles of eerily silent forests to encounter the unknowable, or even unspeakable evil, ...

The entrance to Ward D, in the bowels of Jackson Memorial Hospital, was through a thick steel door with a chest-high peephole. A cop sat on the other side. The room was a bare concrete rectangle with ...

You don’t have to be into Santeria to run into some Afro-Carribean spiritual products here in Houston. After all, while thousands in the city practice the religion — which, yes, can include ...

Netflix has released this poster ahead of Orange Is the New Black‘s Season 3 premiere on June 12, featuring several of the core characters on Santeria candles, which played a large part in both ...

PRINCETON TOWNSHIP, N.J. _ The woman told her friend she was looking for her luck to change. She needed positive energy and hoped to rid her home of evil spirits. Her friend, who later told police his ...

The only connection most people have to Santería is Ricky Ricardo pounding on the conga drum in old “I Love Lucy” reruns. “Babalú, Babalú Ayé,” chants Cuban icon Desi Arnaz, bow tie loosened. Four ...