Dear Death: Thanks for helping me ace the forklift exam. You’re awesome!
This photo is in a display window for a curandera’s shop in Alamo, TX. I guess it’s a grateful-customer endorsement.
Curanderos are folk healers who, from my limited knowledge, practice a heady mix of Mexican folk spirituality (some claim kinship with Native American/Aztec/Mayan/etc. traditions), folk physical healing, Catholicism, astrology, voodoo, general paganism and general spiritualism. Sort of a “kitchen sink” type of thing, although I’m sure there’s more to it than just an “anything goes” mindset. I think outsiders are the only people who are surprised that this kind of thing is so prominent in an area where most people would also call themselves faithful Catholics.
If you click for the full image, you can see this man’s poignant (but to me somewhat disturbing) text, next to his Strong-Bad-esque drawing of Death. Translated (ignoring spelling errors), it reads:
From today onward
your most faithful believer
I give thanks
for hearing me
Most Holy Death.
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