Come to Me, or Else! Santa Muerte, the Love Sorceress

An Illustrated Lecture with Andrew Chesnut

While Santa Muerte, the Mexican saint of death, usually appears as a fierce narco-saint in mass media, TV and film, her oldest and most popular roles is that of love sorceress, mending, binding and even breaking Mexican and American hearts. The skeleton saint’s number one selling votive candle is the crimson one for petitions of love and passion. And the oldest known Santa Muerte prayer is one for women who believe their man is cheating on them. “Bring him to me humbly surrendered at my feet, and come now because I’m calling you and dominating you! You will not know peace until you return to my side. In the same way that I stick this needle the candle, I want thoughts of me to pierce your heart so that you forget about the woman you’re seeing and come back to me” Join Dr. Chesnut in exploring the Bony Lady’s fascinating role as Love Sorceress.











When: Mon., May. 30, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: Morbid Anatomy Museum
424 Third Ave. Brooklyn

Price: $8
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An Illustrated Lecture with Andrew Chesnut

While Santa Muerte, the Mexican saint of death, usually appears as a fierce narco-saint in mass media, TV and film, her oldest and most popular roles is that of love sorceress, mending, binding and even breaking Mexican and American hearts. The skeleton saint’s number one selling votive candle is the crimson one for petitions of love and passion. And the oldest known Santa Muerte prayer is one for women who believe their man is cheating on them. “Bring him to me humbly surrendered at my feet, and come now because I’m calling you and dominating you! You will not know peace until you return to my side. In the same way that I stick this needle the candle, I want thoughts of me to pierce your heart so that you forget about the woman you’re seeing and come back to me” Join Dr. Chesnut in exploring the Bony Lady’s fascinating role as Love Sorceress.

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