>>15119286
>>15119272
Prisons allow prisoners to become openly possessed in rituals?
Divination Rituals and Drumming Ceremonies. These two rituals will be the ones most commonly
observed in prisons. Many individuals practice these divination rituals and are subject to possession
trances even though these rituals are usually performed by an Orisha-worshiping priest.
Orisha worshipers: Drum music and dancing are a form of prayer and sometimes bring about an altered state of consciousness – a trance state – in initiated priests and priestesses. In the trance state, the worshiper becomes spiritually possessed and channels the Orisha, giving the community and individuals information, perform healings, etc.
Orisha: Oggun aka Ogun, Ogum (January 29): Saint Peter.
> Arrested: Ogun gang kills four, sells body parts for money rituals
The roots of Orisha worship rest in Southwestern African indigenous rituals of the Yoruba-speaking tribes of Nigeria and Benin.
With the arrival of the Marielitos in 1980, however, Orisha worshipers got a strong foothold in the United States. Since then, the large Caribbean immigrant population in the South and in the New York area has resulted in significant growth of the religion.
Laws protecting the freedom of religion (the Religious Freedom Restoration Act) also led to the strengthening of the status of the religion and ensured the right of Orisha worshipers to practice their faith without interference.
>They (suspects) also informed the police that they had code names for each human part whenever they wanted to request it from their butcher.
Scholar Mary Pat Fisher, in her 2006 book Living Religions, estimates there may be as many as 100
million worshipers in the United States and Latin America. This may be due in part to the New Age
spiritualist movement, a postmodern amalgamation of nature-based religious beliefs and practices.
Federal Bureau of Prisons:
https://www.bop.gov/foia/docs/orishamanual.pdf