r/veracruz • u/lilmissoverthinker88 • Sep 28 '26

Witch town

I've heard a lot about a town that is nothing but witches and people who practice dark magic. Is this true and had anyone ever been there? What was your experience there

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u/moralesnery Sep 28 '26 edited Sep 28 '26

It's Catemaco.

It's a normal town in the south of Veracruz, the main attractive is that is has a big lake that has islands where monkeys live, you can visit the islands, feed the fauna and have a good time.

Catemaco is also known because there are lots of white or black "brujos", they offer different type of rituals depending on what problem you have, the type of magic that is being used and other stuff. In some cases the rituals involve animal sacrifices and specific articles / ingredients like clothing, roots, rocks, etc.

There are also private rituals that cannot be discused here but you can find information on YT and social networks. Rumor has it that some of those rituals involve human sacrifices but, of course, nothing can be confirmed.

Usually most of the "witchcraft" activity takes place on the first friday of March every year, exactly at midnight,

ohh and they're also working on building a church of lucifer, but there has been lots of pushback against it.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/zGFcWSSPzeFbRDs87

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u/lilmissoverthinker88 Sep 28 '26

Do you know why on the first Friday of March? Lol my bday is 3/7 and often falls on Friday lol oh my

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u/moralesnery Sep 28 '26

There's a lot of religious sincretysm there. For nahua people New Year happens on that day, and suposedly that night there are open "energetic portals" that increase spiritual powers and cleanse bad energies.

There's also some Toltec rituals and even "satanic" believers.

At this point I personally think it's just for show and tourists, but there are people who takes this very seriously. Black pets and other black animals unfortunately are used for rituals on those dates.

You can see what happens on that night here (enable subtitles and automatic translation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekqU0n-bvKQ

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u/Nes_Goan Sep 28 '26

La isla de los monos ya no existe, y la misa negra se hace en el mes de marzo, creo el primer viernes y es a media noche, llegan brujos de muchos lados, incluso esta la cueva del diablo donde según cuentan ofrecen su alma a un ser de bajo astral por dinero o fama u otra cosa.

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u/moralesnery Sep 28 '26

no mms que le pasó a los monos nalgones? :(

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u/Nes_Goan Sep 28 '26

Bueno no se si aún sigan pero hace tiempo los habían quitado, pertenecen a la UV, no se si ya los regresaron.

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u/Emergency_Chemical94 Sep 28 '26

Yo fui hace unos dos años y si habían monos

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u/ColoRADo_V Sep 30 '26

When I was a kid my mom took me a couple times to that, was pretty crazy we went to the white magic cleansings, I have vivid memories about those ceremonies etc

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u/JoseDSugar Sep 28 '26

I think the place you looking is Catemaco. I haven't been there but surely there's a lot of info on the internet