Then, being without a cook, he put up at the Copacabana Palace Hotel. The cooks answered with a macumba, a Brazilian form of sorcery much practiced by the poor and ignorant. Black chickens were ...

Calm or offshore from the NW to NE. The west side of the island is Praia da Macumba. It breaks on the same swells but can be good at low tide when it's small, as well. When it's big, Macumba can ...