Other Rio fun

On our last morning Claire and I made an early run around to the main street in Ipanema to visit the cashpoint (ATM). Obviously someone had been there before us, and they had been busy... Unfortunately neither of us had cameras with us, so you will have to imagine what we saw....
On the floor in the middle of the lobby was a large teracotta bowl, in which there was a (very dead) rooster, surrounding the bowl/rooster was a ring of manioc flour and some large leaves, similar to bay leaves. The last component was a large bottle of Grants whisky.
Magic, Macumba magic. If you are looking for some help to get what you want (and me thinks that someone was in need of some cash) then you can visit a Macumba specialist. They will tell you what to do, where to do it and when to do it. Sort of like a prescription. Saturday morning, in the lobby, with the rooster....