Oh, PLEASE. "Real pagans" most certainly use such things. An old skull, with two thighbones not pagan? The whitewashing of our pagan roots continues to astound me.

If the authorities would have found a real expert of Palo Mayombe they would have had an answer to all their questions, instead of relying on Jennifer Rose Emick who is some religious cult dilettante. Palo Mayombe is a religion far older than Christianity but how do you sell that in White America. White washing is what our religion refuses to do and that is why it is persecuted. Refering to us as "Wiccans" is the real insult.

I think you should read it again, Oba. Nobody called you a Wiccan.

Right - the article doesn't say a thing about Wicca in relation to the find, although the "expert" did use the generic "harm none" as proof that it wasn't a pagan ritual. This is a common error.