Who Has Angered The Volcano God?

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New York (CNN) -- Candles used in voodoo sex ceremony caused a fatal five alarm fire after they tipped over and ignited bed sheets in a Brooklyn, New York, apartment, authorities said Friday.

The fire left an elderly woman dead and injured 20 firefighters and three Brooklyn residents, according to a New York Fire Department statement.

A voodoo priest allegedly placed the candles on the floor around the bed on Saturday after a woman paid him $300 to perform a ceremony with a sexual component, that was meant to bring her good luck, fire department officials said.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/02/25/new.york.voodoo.fire/index.html?hpt=T2
 
A good luck ceremony and she died?

I guess that didn't exactly work out, did it?
 
I can see this scenario...

"Ooooh....Papa Legba... That's nice, but I think I smell smoke..."

"Shush woman, I'm near climax..."
 
She didn't die, an old woman living in the same building did. Both ceremonial participants made it out fine.
 
How do the volcano gods play into this?

I've angered the volcano gods, took lava rocks from HI. Nothing happened. :)
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
I've angered the volcano gods, took lava rocks from HI. Nothing happened. :)
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I think the volcano gods cut some slack for people who take samples for research, educational purposed, or intellectual curiosity (rather than just trinkets). Otherwise those of us who do research in those regions would be screwed :D

I'm also unclear on how the volcano gods are relevant to this story, though?
 
volcano said:
I think the volcano gods cut some slack for people who take samples for research, educational purposed, or intellectual curiosity (rather than just trinkets). Otherwise those of us who do research in those regions would be screwed :D

I'm also unclear on how the volcano gods are relevant to this story, though?
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I couldn't see the connection either, that's why I added my own story.

HI Volcanoes National Park has a display case (if it wasn't melted when the visitor center by Hilo was lost in the path of a lava flow) with lava returned by mail after tourists sent it back with stories of bad luck after taking the rocks. The locals told me one can take lava as long as you leave something in its place as an offering. So I left peanuts and it worked, no bad luck. ;) I have the nicest collection of Pele's hair and other fascinating specimens of different kinds of lava.
 
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