The little satanic santa muerte idols were metal. How to destroy them so that no one could ever find them or use them again? My first thought, having been a potter as a kid, was a really hot kiln so as to just melt whatever. But kilns are waaaay too expensive and need an electrician to install 220v plugs. Then I remembered my handy-dandy “blow torch”, put together with a propane canister and a screw-on torch. It worked: melt melt melt. Quick and easy. Then I threw the non-descript blob of metal away.
In being given such things I was especially carefully. I laid out a piece of paper on the table. The little metal idols were put on the paper, Holy Water, appropriately exorcized, was applied, and then that was all folded up securely for later destruction.
I remember some training I received from Father Candido many decades ago in the little parlor to the left of the entrance of the CSSR residence to the left of the Holy Stairs, which was situated in my parish while I was for so many years in Rome.
He recalled how he had asked during an exorcism how such a possession came about, the answer being the location of some satanic rubbish buried below a certain tree. He went and dug it up, reaching out to grab it before even saying any kind of prayer for protection. He was instantly struck by extreme pain in his stomach, a pain which lasted for most of his life. He learned, for the benefit of all of us, not to take these things lightly.
Oh… one more thing… just practical… I had placed the satanic metal santa muerte idols on a left-over ceramic tile and began the blow-torch treatment outside the rectory. Before long, of course, the tile itself exploded. Hmm. Let me rethink this. How about using a cinderblock underneath? That worked well. And the remains, the metal blob, was easily removed.
ARISE! LET US BE GOING! 