Mercedes Salazar: 'Blood Ritual' Witchcraft Kidnap Revenge Plot Ends In Woman's Arrest, Police Say

Before we delve into this bizarre story, lets get a few terms correct.  Sometimes it pays to have an odd grouping of friends.

Pagan is an umbrella term for any religion that doesn't fall under the "Major 3." A Pagan is someone who worships many gods or who worships nature and the Earth. Many gods can include both the deities such as Cerridwen and Brigid, but also the gods of Christianity and Judaism. We are taught to embrace all religions, and there are many Christian Wiccans or Jews who practice witchcraft.

Wicca is a religion with it's own practices. Basically, like other kinds of Pagan religions, it is nature based. Wiccan are considered to be "white witches" and one of their tenets is, "An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will." They are considered the "fluffy bunnies" of the witchcraft world because they are thought of as the "good" witches.  Witchcraft is considered to be a religion in some circles, but it's also what witches practice. Witchcraft is casting spells, making potions, etc.

So, to confuse you even more, here it is in a nutshell: All Wiccans are witches, but not all witches are Wiccans. All Wiccans are Pagans, but not all Pagans are Wiccans. Finally, some witches are Pagans, but some are not - and some Pagans practice witchcraft, while others choose not to.

So with that said, as my friend notes, "only a crazy person would do that to another,,,it's easy to throw the blame on witches and witchcraft."

Mercedes Salazar carried out a horrifying witchcraft blood ritual on another woman who was kidnapped as part of a chilling revenge plot, police in San Antonio, Texas, say. The 32-year-old woman with a lengthy criminal record stretching back to when she was 17, was arrested early on Sunday, in connection with the bizarre kidnapping of a woman late last month who was discovered screaming in terror in a home in west San Antonio last month.

The whole frightening scenario could have been lifted entirely from a low-budget horror movie. But the ordeal was all-too-real for the 25-year-old woman, who police have not named publicly, but who they now say is the former girlfriend of Angel Salazar, a brother of Mercedes Salazar, who died last month in another horrific kidnapping that ended in his murder at the hands of his abductors.

Mercedes Salazar apparently believed that the ex-girlfriend was somehow behind the slaying of her brother, Angel, and plotted the diabolical kidnapping with three accomplices as revenge — and possibly, police say, as way to extract the truth by means of a blood ritual, which involved slicing open her palm and cutting off a large swath of her hair — for use in some sort of witchcraft, or at least what the suspects believed was witchcraft.

Mercedes Salazar: 'Blood Ritual' Witchcraft Kidnap Revenge Plot Ends In Woman's Arrest, Police Say