{"id":9088,"date":"2018-04-20T13:55:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T20:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9088"},"modified":"2018-04-30T14:00:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T21:00:38","slug":"dead-black-market-hummingbirds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/20\/dead-black-market-hummingbirds\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Black Market Hummingbirds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2018\/04\/wildlife-watch-illegal-hummingbird-trade-love-charm-mexico-witchcraft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from National Geographic<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"immersive-lead__heading md-title\">Inside the Black Market Hummingbird Love Charm Trade<\/h2>\n<p>By <span class=\"byline-component__contributors\"><strong>Rene Ebersole<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q3rHOX4lKyQ\" width=\"480\" height=\"292\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a witch in San Diego who casts spells to \u201ctrap a man\u201d and \u201cdominate him\u201d so \u201che\u2019ll always come back.\u201d She has a shop on San Ysidro Boulevard, one mile from the busiest Mexico border crossing in the United States, near a pawnshop, a liquor store, a furniture market, and the Smokenjoy Hookah Lounge, where DJ music thumps on Friday nights.<\/p>\n<p>But you don\u2019t need to go to her shop for magic\u2014you can join the tens of thousands watching her on YouTube. Like a wicked Martha Stewart creating potions instead of potpourri, she provides step-by-step instructions for her spells.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the honey jar,\u201d she tells viewers while introducing the ingredients on her workbench: photographs of two would-be lovers, a piece of paper with their names written on it three times, a small glass jar\u2014and a dead hummingbird. She rolls the tiny animal inside the photographs and wraps the cigar-shaped bundle with hot-pink yarn nearly the same shade as her long, fake fingernails.<\/p>\n<p>Showing only her arms and lower body on camera, she shields her identity as she swaddles the package in a sarcophagus of tacky flypaper, dips it in cinnamon spice, squeezes it into the jar, and spritzes it with perfumes and oils\u2014pheromones\u2014\u201cso he\u2019ll stay sexually attracted.\u201d Restless balm \u201cso he\u2019ll be like, \u2018Oh my God, I need to call her.\u2019\u201d Sleep oil \u201cso he\u2019ll be like a zombie.\u201d Attraction oil \u201cso he\u2019ll be like, \u2018Goddamn, you so beautiful, you so fine.\u2019\u201d Dominating oil \u201cso you dominate his thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally she fills the jar with a thick pour of golden honey and tops it with a sprinkle of rose petals. \u201cI love this,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m already getting a really good vibe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2018\/04\/wildlife-watch-illegal-hummingbird-trade-love-charm-mexico-witchcraft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Nat Geo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from National Geographic Inside the Black Market Hummingbird Love Charm Trade By Rene Ebersole There\u2019s a witch in San Diego who casts spells to \u201ctrap a man\u201d and \u201cdominate him\u201d so \u201che\u2019ll always come back.\u201d She has a shop on San Ysidro Boulevard, one mile from the busiest Mexico border crossing in the United States, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}