The Witches of Guaratuba: Black Magic, Child Sacrifice and a Deadly Plot | #470 — RedHanded

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In the early 1990s, the beach town of Guaratuba, Brazil had its very own witch hunt.

It started with the mutilated body of a seven-year-old boy: Evandro Ramos Caetano...

And it would end with a coven of accused ‘black magic’ practitioners – including the mayor’s own wife and daughter – sentenced to decades behind bars for alleged child sacrifice rituals.

But as shocking claims emerged of political scheming and torture-fuelled confessions, was that really the whole story? Or did the trouble brewing in Guaratuba run far deeper?

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