'Paying' the saints for their help  A recent e-mail conversation
with Rose Weaver regarding saint work got me thinking and I
would like to post something about the various ways of 'paying'
saints for any work they do when you petition them. There is so
much information about this on the various social networks and
websites and a lot of it can be quite unreliable, frankly.  So
firstly before we go into what to pay - it's important that you
know you shouldn't 'overfeed' spirits by giving them too much
too often (foodstuff and other things). Don't overfeed any
spirit. That's one of the first things I was taught as an
espiritista. It's counter intuitive because you think that if
you ply a spirit with goodies they will favour you more. But for
some reason it doesn't work that way. This well-meaning approach
seems to make them 'lazy', which is to say, slow to get moving.
Why bother if you get loaded with a ton of free stuff anyway,
right? It's especially easy to get carried away when you first
start with spirit wor