More adherents of Candomblé are also practicing Roman Catholics, and some priests and priestesses would not initiate anyone into Candomblé who was not already a baptised Roman Catholic. Syncretism can be observed in other ways. The anthropologist Jim Wafer observed a Brazilian practitioner who included a statue of the Mahayana Buddhist deity Hotei on their altar, while Arnaud Halloy encountered a Belgian terreiro whose head was drawing on characters from Welsh and Slavic mythologies in their practice, and the scholar Joana Bahia found practitioners in Germany who also practiced Buddhism and various New Age practices.