Comments for Brazil's Sorcerers and Witches Stage Magic Ritual to Heal Mother Earth at http://www.brazzilmag.com , comment 0 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.brazzilmag.com Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:15:39 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8803/54/#pc_11838 "Burning money helps people get rich, explains the wizard." Ah...that's been my problem all along. I haven't been burning enough cash. Brilliant - glad Greenpeace and the Ministry of Culture are getting behind this group. - Stephen Smith Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:49:02 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8803/54/#pc_11794 BRAVO!!!!!!! - FRANCES CO Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:44:27 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/8803/54/#pc_11784 There is a widespread use of elemental mercury (Hg) in a variety of Afro-Caribbean and Brazilian religious and folkloric practices. These include Candomble, Palo Mayombe, Voodoo, Santeria, Espiritismo, and Obeah. Mercury is believed to attract good and to repel evil. Many of the ways mercury is used expose people to mercury metal, and to mercury vapor. A number of rituals involve sprinkling mercury on floors and furnishings of homes, and inside motor vehicles. Such sprinkling contaminates the home or vehicle semi-permanently, as the mercury sinks into porous flooring and persists for decades, while it continually releases neurotoxic mercury vapor. Eventually all of this mercury enters the larger environment, where it contaminated landfills and surrounding waters. Please see the MERCURY POISONING PROJECT web site www.mercurypoisoningproject.org for further information, and use the key words < mercury Saneteria > to search the Web for materials on this latent but real environmental health threat. If you have any information on the ritualistic use of mercury in Brazil, please contact me at: mercurywendroff@mindspring.com - Arnold P. Wendroff, PhD Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:23:10 +0100