Associated with the Day of the Dead celebration thoughout South, Central and the Southwestern United States Santa Muerta is a year round figure of folk lore as she has many different meanings. Her popularity has been growing in these regions to almost cult like proportions.Santa Muerta is a female folk saint associated with protection and healing. She also gives the dead safe passage to the afterlife. She wears all different colors of robes and often carries a variety of objects including scales, globes or a scythe. Santa Muerta or Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerta is popular throughout the Southwest and Mexico. The Spanish translation of the name means Our Lady of the Holy Death.
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