Next morning a vindictive priest refuses to let Ze enter the church, scorning his promise to the saint as a pagan vow made through an intermediary god at a macumba ceremony.
Entitled December 31, 1980: Brazil: Feast Day lemanj, it refers to the goddess of salt water in the Brazilian macumba cult, whose votaries send out little silver-painted boats .
An even faster growing form of worship is spiritualism, which has more than 10 million followers who practice everything from African fetishism and nature rites to macumba, the .