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Bury photos in the cemetery | What does it mean? Witchcraft

Cemeteries or graveyards are the places where the remains of people who have died are buried.The word cemetery comes from the Greek "κοιμητήριον" and means "place to sleep." However, since ancient times, cemeteries or places of burial, the earth and the bones of the deceased have been used to practice various rituals.One of the ones that attracts the most attention and that has been notified to the authorities of different graveyards of the world, on various occasions, is the finding of photographs in anomalous situations.Join us to find out what it means to bury photos in the cemetery and if it has anything to do with witchcraft or black magic.

The use from the land of cemeteries to practice black magic, especially in case of curses or necromancy, it is not something recent.Apparently the ancient Egyptians had already used land and bones extracted from funerary sites for their practices cas magicas.There are currently many stories related to Dark Cemeteries of the world.

What it means to bury photos in the cemetery

Cemeteries or cities of the dead by their own idiosyncrasy accumulate great number of superstitions and legends.In this context it is not surprising that the venues for the deceased are used at night as altars in supposed ceremonies of black magic or voodoo , in acts of crime such as theft of jewels to the corpses or in simple hooligans as sexual encounters about the graves.

The myths about the cemeteries are innumerable and in many of them it is explained that it is the place where sorcerers and witches provide themselves with the bones and human skulls they need for their sinister rituals.Due to all these superstitions and legends it is not surprising that the land of the cemeteries is used for rituals of voodoo, macumba or black magic, since it is considered magical for those who believe in these rituals.If we add to this the tradition of the voodoo which consists of sticking needles in dolls that represent the spirit of the victim, we are approaching why burying photos in the cemetery.

Bury photos in the cemetery | What does it mean? Witchcraft

The land of cemeteries, for believers, serves to seal the rituals.Carving the photos on the ground means causing damage to the person photographed on it and tormenting it with terrible pains.These rituals come from the voodoo, the macumba and the black magic and although the affected person does not believe in them, it is undeniable that they cause unease.Another practice related to burying photos in the cemetery and that It has been denounced several times consists of depositing the photograph of the person who wants to be damaged in a boat with needles stuck and this must be buried at the foot of the grave of a deceased.The guards of some cemeteries have also found buried boats with a photo and tied with a red bow, it seems that this ritual is used to make someone fall in love or get tied up.

In a recent case in Santiago del Estero in Argentina, a man who first thing in the morning he went in the cemetery to visit the grave of a relative, found more than 20 photographs nailed on the ground of the cemetery.The police investigated the case since some of them corresponded to children and adolescents and were crossed with 6 nails that fixed them to the earth.The hypothesis was that it was some kind of black magic ritual.

Bury photos in the cemetery | What does it mean? Witchcraft

In witchcraft, in addition, the cemetery is considered a liminal place, a transitory point or a threshold between the world of the living and that of the dead and in which they believe that they can more easily establish a communication with the hereafter.Also in the rites of voodoo, land collected from graveyard tombs is used.Some witchcraft manuals talk about the cemetery land and how it should be used.Even if something completely absurd , we explain it to you as a curiosity.They say to take land from the Tomb of a father or a mother serves as protection, the collection of a doctor's grave serves to cure diseases, that of a murderer's grave is used in spells to damage an enemy and the collection of that of a rich lure economic fortune.That is, when the land is collected, it is advised in the manuals to make a prayer of thanks to the deceased owner of the grave.

Bury photos in the cemetery | What does it mean? Witchcraft

Bury photos in the cemetery is not the only superstition that has to do with graveyards.There are many things that superstitious people avoid doing in cemeteries such as whistling or stepping on a grave.Did you know that the reason for burying photos in the cemetery or was it related to a ritual of black magic or voodoo? Do you know other rituals related to cemeteries? If you are interested in cemetery related topics, we invite you to read the post 20 Cemetery Curiosities | Dark and fascinating and if you want to know curious cemeteries of the world you may want to read these posts:

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