An unprecedented case involving a woman who believes in the “Goddess of Death” and is accused of performing witchcraft for a fee occupied the courts in Nicosia, Cyprus. The decision was even referred to the Supreme Court, as reported by cyprustimes.com.

In the case, the convicted defendant had extorted from a woman, a resident of Agios Dometios, a large sum (in cash and in objects), pretending to her that she was able to practice magic to protect her husband from “evil” and from a dangerous disease, through a group of Satanists, with whom she herself had a partnership.

In what took place now, last September. The Police on 18.9.2024 secured a search warrant in relation to the house, real estate and wooden warehouse of the applicant, at a specific address in a village in the district of Nicosia.

The Police proceeded to execute the search warrant and in the context of this execution seized:

  1. Three fox bones.
  2. Two fox bones on a metal tray with a mirror base in which was a box of 78 tarot cards, coins, etc.
  3. Container in which was a skeleton of a snake’s head, a snake’s skin, and a pinecone.
  4. A glass skull with snakes.
  5. Transparent bags inside which were hairs with names of persons.
  6. Ram skull with horns.
  7. A pipe with skulls and crows.
  8. A gray dragon pipe.
  9. A plastic black dragon with wings.
  10. Witch hat.
  11. Black cape.
  12. Dragon gray plastic mask.
  13. A skull cup, in which was a sum of money in notes and coins.
  14. Tarot decks.
  15. Black candles, red candles.
  16. Cloths depicting a cat with skulls and a tree.
  17. A metal spider.
  18. An onion.
  19. A garlic.
  20. A square black cloth in the shape of a Pentacle”

The applicant’s position, as presented in the Affidavit in support of the pending ex parte application, by which she claims leave to file a summons application for the issuance of a Privileged Writ of Certiorari to cancel the search warrant issued by the lower Court , is that she believes in the Goddess “Santa Muerte”, a religion, as she says, “that comes from Mexico”.

The purchasing advocate stated that “The Deity of “Santa Muerte” is a Goddess. As the old ancient Greeks believed in Poseidon, Zeus, Aphrodite, this is the “Goddess of Death” in Mexico.

Verbatim what the applicant specifically records in her Affidavit:

Outside my house, I have a small warehouse where inside I have placed various objects in honor of the deity SANTA MUERTE in which I believe. After all, it is my constitutional right to believe in whatever god I believe in.

My right to believe in every deity has every citizen of the Republic of Cyprus or every citizen who belongs to the minorities, such as Latinos, Muslims etc.

Just as the Christian Orthodox has a small chapel or an iconostasis in his house or in his yard or a Muslim room and a Koran to pray to Allah, so I have a room specially made for the Goddess Santa Muerte. No law forbids me to own or keep room for the deity I believe in.

In honor of the Goddess Santa Muerte, like the Greek Orthodox priests, I have various incenses and incense burners and candles that I light to the Goddess Santa Muerte that stay lit while I meditate or pray to the Goddess Santa Muerte. The presence in the specially arranged room in honor of the goddess Santa Muerte is done by me exclusively and sometimes my ex-partner R.D. was also present.

It is my opinion that the Police did not respect the religion of the goddess Santa Muerte and entered the room that is specially arranged for her, in her temple, her own church and violating my right to religion they took from inside it, various objects that are for the benefit of the goddess Sana Muerte, such as candles, mirrors, incense, incense sticks.”

A few words regarding the witness material that was put before the lower Court. The testimony that had been put before him said that the applicant indulges in “magic, black magic and tarot reading” for a fee. In fact, in a live video of her, in a specific application, she allegedly advertises that if a woman wants a man and he doesn’t want her, she can use magic to make him want her, after being paid beforehand.