Santeria? Anyone what the heck?

A gruesome Halloween mystery came to a Miami neighborhood Thursday morning when residents awoke to find dozens of dead, headless animals dumped down their street.
About a dozen goats, cats and different types of birds were laid out on nearly two blocks between 16th Terrace and 15th Terrace on 34th Avenue in Miami, leaving residents scared at what might be next as Halloween approaches.
"Nothing had a head," said Marioly Perez, who was awakened by screeching tires as a car peeled out down the street. "I have never seen anything like this. It's scary."
Miami Police believe the dead animals might have been part of a religious ritual like a Santeria, but those don't usually involve cats. There was also a "very large" animal that no one could identify, residents said.




http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/weird/N...460693.html?dr




Has anyone heard of this before?

[Nevair]

santeria isnt about ritual sacrifices, its about saints guides and spiritual energies and mediation its very earth oriented as well, they have a black side but i never heard that being done in a large number

Santeria is a mixture of Catholicism and Voodoo. It's like... magic invoking the saints... I don't really see what could be accomplished by such a large group of creatures... besides it isn't about sacrifice anyway..