“Macumba” on the Brazilian Sinter label. This is one of the most amazing covers. A real voodoo ritual complete with the rooster blood letting, the live snake, the priestess and her pipe and most disturbingly the man in a trance licking the blood from his hand. I’m spooked to even be writing about it. Curses!
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April 19, 2008 at 9:50 pm
glauberovsky
wow! shockin’ an’ creepy indeed!
GLAUBER [brazil]
April 22, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Desiderio
It’s really a gruesome scene but, to be honest, what you took as a live snake is a harmless “espada de s. jorge” — a plant associated to some Macumba deities such as Ogum or Xango (aka in Voodoo as Legba).
I can’t tell it’s name in English but I am sure you are familiar to sansevieria hyacinthoides L. Druce. There’s a photo of this beauty in Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jan_Moninckx06.jpg
April 22, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Desiderio
I case you’re still spooked, simply say “Saravah”, which is “excuse-me for entering on your domain”. Getting into a bath tube with some basil leaves will cleanse you from any “mau-olhado” (negative vibes from envious people).
SARAVAH!