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Now if I think of it I think you are wright. And I forgot about the aztec traditions involving blood. Since these preChristian traditions are imbedded in the popular christian believes this might be way to have an impact on some mexicans. Appealing to this kind of things (relics of dead people - usually the hole body but parts of it also) is a customary way of attracting large groups of people by the Orthodox church in my country (Romania). And you would be amazed how large those groups are. It is mass superstition at is best.
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