{"id":196,"date":"2013-03-07T06:34:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T06:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vajraenterprises.com\/new\/?p=196"},"modified":"2013-03-07T06:34:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T06:34:46","slug":"196","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajraenterprises.com\/new\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Hoodoo Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/strong>On plantations, slaves cobbled together a powerful system of magic, learning to gain luck, manipulate minds and even to kill using common objects.<\/i>
\nOn lonely country crossroads, desperate people made bargains with the Devil for wealth, talent and power.<\/i>
\nOn the shores of Louisiana Bayous, under overhangs of spanish moss, free Blacks met to practice an ancient and secret religion, calling powerful beings into their bodies.<\/i>
\nIn isolated cabins and shacks, bitter outcasts waited until night and\u00a0traveled\u00a0forth in another form to prey on the communities that had rejected them.<\/i>
\nUnder \u201changing-trees,\u201d in graveyards and on old battlefields, the spirits of those who had been murdered returned to terrorize the living.<\/i>
\nDeep in ancient mountain-side forests, ancient and terrible beasts stalked, preying upon first the native people and then the Scots-Irish settlers that came after them.<\/i>
\nAnd today, on the city streets, on the lonely country roads, in the swamps and mountain forests of the South, these powerful humans, spirits and creatures still seek to settle old scores, satisfy their various hungers or find redemption for their sins.<\/i>
\nThe South is haunted by its past, in more ways than one.<\/i><\/p>\n