Sacrafices that include Money

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While bicycling on beach, Cocoa Beach, Fla. I found an extremely strange cache!
I notice a 'blanket', or towel, ocean blue in color tied with two knots laying just at the top of the water mark on a dune.
When I peered inside I saw a nickel and a penny at the top of the pile of the contents inside.
I untied the knot beans, rice, corn, slices of watermelon, chunks of pineapple, wrapped up bubble gum, rice and wildrice.
I untied the 2 knots and laid out the bedside table size cloth.
There was a Red Snapper Fish on the top and as I fanned out the stuff in there I found Chickens that had been decapitated!
These chickens were in color, 2 white , 2 rust, 1 black with gray speckles.
There were coins! Ooodles of American currency coins.
I picked out the coins reading the denominations aloud.
I have seen sacrifice offered to the animal gods before when I had lived in Indonesia. This was similar to the fact that it was a sacrifice. 'Unknown Origin'.
I notice a piece of paper inside the stuff that had a list of names. The Names were either, Spanish, Portuguese or Mexican . I think Mexican because of the types of foods and animals involved.
I do not know if the list was for a "blessing", a "curse",(perhaps some voodoo involved here???!), or a "prayer request".
The total tally of the finds, that I recovered, was $5.33. At least 8 Quarters, 13 Nickels. etc.
The food inside was not rotten, or even rotting. It was damp. Perhaps it had been tossed into the ocean the night before or early in the morning. ? There were a few beetles of about 1/4" cruising through it.
I carried no camera. So no picture to post, sorry.
I bought a Florida lotto, Fantasy 5, and a Play 4 , (1-7-1-5), ticket with the change. They lost. lol.
Anyone have an idea of what this cache was from my description?
I thought this to be interestingly enough to post to the treasure hunting community because in MAGIC; "Animal Sacrafice" and "Human Sacrafice" are linked to "Treasure Magic".
By the way. After I had picked the money out I retied it and placed it where I found it. Some of the contents spilled into the sand however and was lost from the rest.
+ 1 gold earring, not solid.
 

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Voodoo

Sounds like voodoo to me. I wouldn't have messed with it myself. Not because I'm superstitious, but because whoever put it there is - and might be watching.
 

Re: Voodoo

at1cad said:
Sounds like voodoo to me. I wouldn't have messed with it myself. Not because I'm superstitious, but because whoever put it there is - and might be watching.

:laughing9:
 

Sounds like a nice beach picnic with all the fixins...
 

Hello,

Mexican is not a language.
The people of Mexico speak Spanish predominantly.
Many people from Haiti in Florida speak Creole, a dialect of French.
Many Haitians are also practitioners of Voodoo. Santeria is big in Cuban communities as well.
I hope you are proud of your $5 in change.
I would have left it where it lay.

Chico R.
 

i think i would have left that alone :-\
 

Sounds like an easy $5 to me...good job (too bad the lotto didn't hit). If it was an offering or sacrifice whoever threw it in the ocean was done with it. I guess if you start having really bad luck you can go throw $5 in the ocean (someone with a detector will recover it). You never know what people are gonna lose or throw out.

HH Charlie
 

I would have left it where it lay.

I don't necessarily disagree with this. As someone else pointed out the original owner might be watching. But anyone who puts this type of thing out there has to know that someone is going to come along and take it. So I guess it might as well be the OP. I've heard that sometimes that's part of the deal. If you've ever read The Urban Treasure Hunter you'll see a similar story of voodoo in which the author comes across a small statue in the bushes. He takes it to a "witch" of sorts and she tells him that him taking it was part of the plan and is actually required for the spell to work. So the OP may have done this person a favor. But who knows.

Anyway, I'd be a little wary of touching it all because you just never know what some people are capable of. I don't have a problem picking up a coin that someone obviously lost. But this stuff was planted there on purpose for some strange ritual. And you don't know whether or not they will get bent out of shape if you disturb it.
 

This reminds me of the episode from the Brady Bunch when Greg found that little Tiki idol thing in Hawaii and had nothing but bad luck afterwards. I don't remember the full story but you better watch out you might be cursed. I even think it might have already started when the money you found didn't win the lotto. If the sky starts to darken up I'd run for it if I were you. lol
 

It is definitely a Santeria offering.
They make these offerings to one of numerous "orishas" which are the deities of the religion
That animals were sacrificed indicates that the request to the orishas must have involved a major issue in the offerer's life
Not being superstitious, I would have taken the money also.
Besides, as the poster above pointed out, many of these offerings are made in public places, such as courthouse steps, and the offerer knows that they will be found.
Or perhaps the orisha in question wanted you to find the offering for reasons which will be revealed in the future. :o
 

One of the places my relic hunting partner and I visit often has signs of these rituals. We don't think that they are done in the woods but this seems to be the dumping grounds. We've seen goats and chickens with the heads cut off and bowl shaped gourds used to catch the blood.

Also burlap bags with assorted beans and candles. Found one of these bags of beans with dollar bills sticking out of it. Collected $52 in one dollar bills for the gas fund.

Jeff
 

I'm kinda split on this one! :dontknow: The cash would have been tempting,but knowing it was a ritualistic package with sacrificed animals.....I think I would have thrown some sand on that lot and left it alone. Interesting find though.....Thanks for sharing!

HH,
Moon
 

N.J.THer said:
Sounds like a nice beach picnic with all the fixins...
:coffee2: Yeah, that is funny. I told people on the beach what I had found. I guess I was giving them an invite to the party !
 

Re: Voodoo

at1cad said:
Sounds like voodoo to me. I wouldn't have messed with it myself. Not because I'm superstitious, but because whoever put it there is - and might be watching.
Right. Achbor and Achor. Achbor a priest , and a ghost town in Ohio and Georgia. And Achor a curse, Achor Egypt, ( The valley of Deep Shadow,or, Valley of Death). A link of Robin Hoods Sherwood Forest is Achor Egypt. :icon_profileright: Achor is the "Conscientious Curse Upon Thieves", (it has to do with their minds and thinking capabilities), or, criminal reprobate, banshees, etc.. :icon_profileleft:
Another example is ghost town Fab, Florida. ... Chaplain Fabrega of the 1715th. Plate Fleet perhaps.
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MrBling said:
It is definitely a Santeria offering.
They make these offerings to one of numerous "orishas" which are the deities of the religion
That animals were sacrificed indicates that the request to the orishas must have involved a major issue in the offerer's life
Not being superstitious, I would have taken the money also.
Besides, as the poster above pointed out, many of these offerings are made in public places, such as courthouse steps, and the offerer knows that they will be found.
Or perhaps the orisha in question wanted you to find the offering for reasons which will be revealed in the future. :o
Santeria. I read up on a site. Purto Rican origin. I read that they think Lazurus is the ticket to money. Lazurus was the poor guy with sores and ate the crumbs from his masters table in the christian bible.
Note too that it was simple for Spanish pirates to use Spanish Salesian Missionary "magic", to practice thier black arts crime while robbing thier own king. So diabolical that they could go undetected and actualy have a choice in the matter if ever caught; Hanging or 12 years in chains in a galley of a ship rowing it across oceans.
But you are correct I think as if it were a sacrafice to pease a way of sorts.
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Cool Find.

I Wish I'd find something Like that.

I Love finding the Unusual !

Jeff
 

tomharris76 said:
This reminds me of the episode from the Brady Bunch when Greg found that little Tiki idol thing in Hawaii and had nothing but bad luck afterwards. I don't remember the full story but you better watch out you might be cursed. I even think it might have already started when the money you found didn't win the lotto. If the sky starts to darken up I'd run for it if I were you. lol
:laughing9:
:thumbsup: I saw that episode. What the problem was that the tiki was misrepresented in the first place. Had the tiki been dipped in animal blood, or dead enemy blood, :help: and offered as a gift by a Tekoite or Sorroque to him. He would have had no problem.
:laughing9:
 

what if the person who made the "sacrafice" sees you mess wit der "offering" -- what mit dey be "offering" up next time mon? ever tink abot dat mon? -- bad ju ju to monkey wit religous "offerings" . ---you wouldn't goi into a church and take money from a offering plate would you? same kinda ting .
 

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