Hello kids, this is Risk, the show where people tell true stories they never thought they

dared to share.

I'm Kevin Allison and every Thursday we release these special episodes where we look

back at content from our earlier years.

Every other Thursday we feature just one classic story from the vaults.

We ask that you keep the historical context in mind.

Today in 2021 there's a different consciousness.

We've always asked storytellers to speak in as unfiltered away as possible and yet to

tell their stories with as much compassion as possible.

Even so I'm sure the storytellers and the host might have worded some of what they said

on these old episodes differently if they'd been recorded more recently.

As always the title of the whole series Risk is itself a content warning.

This week a story that Nelson Lugo first shared on the show in November of 2015, here's

Nelson now with a story we call The Megas.

So my grandmother was a Santeras which means that she practiced Santaria which means that

she was a Puerto Rican witch and I mean not in the most respectful way possible.

For those of you who don't know Santaria is what's known as a syncretic religion.

It combines the Uruba faith of West Africa with the indigenous folklore of the Bariqui

Indians of Puerto Rico.

When the missionary started their work it then became fused with Catholicism.

So as a result my grandmother was a devout Catholic who attended Mass every single day of her

life.

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