From Satanism to Santa Muerte – How Saint Death Saved My Hide

Hi my name is Humayara Rahman. I identify as a Santa Muerte devotee but I’ve always been an occultist, I was born into magic as far as I could remember. Growing up with psychic abilities and paranormal experiences all throughout childhood and adulthood in a traditional devout Muslim Asian household was very very confusing. Of course there was a question of mental health concern and other health related issue as well as family dynamic issues, but for the sake of this article let’s stick to the part of jumping from one bandwagon in the occult to another one and what was my reasoning behind it all?

Up until about age 15 I had essentially just pranced around, reading books on Wicca, Paganism and Druidism with other alternative paths but never fully committing to anything other than identifying as a New Age hippie. My priority then was to be free, be…