{"id":1408,"date":"2006-08-14T10:08:48","date_gmt":"2006-08-14T18:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/hoodoo_gurus_explain_stop_snitching_tongue.html"},"modified":"2006-08-14T10:08:48","modified_gmt":"2006-08-14T18:08:48","slug":"hoodoo_gurus_ex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/hoodoo_gurus_ex.html","title":{"rendered":"Hoodoo Gurus Explain “Stop Snitching” Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least Stop Snitching T-shirts<\/a> didn’t do any overt physical<\/em> harm . . . like this pin-filled beef tongue<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The tongue, found in Central Park, may have been left over from a “hoodoo” spell designed to keep a witness from testifying in court, experts in the African-American form of folk magic told the Daily News yesterday.<\/p>\n

“It’s a very old and popular spell used to silence people,” said Catherine Yronwode, 60, proprietor of the Lucky Mojo hoodoo-supply shop in Forestville, Calif. “It can be used in any case where there’s a witness that’s going to speak against you.”<\/p>\n

The bizarre object was discovered after lawyer Martha Redding, 38, let her black Labrador, Milo, off his leash in the park Wednesday morning and then noticed the dog gnawing on a package wrapped in brown paper and ribbons.<\/p>\n

When she pulled the package away, she saw it contained a beef tongue studded with straight pins and hat pins, some up to 3 inches long. Redding rushed the dog to veterinarian Andrew Kaplan, who induced vomiting to get the 31 needles Milo had ingested out of the dog’s stomach. Milo has recovered.<\/p>\n

The vet said that several people called his office yesterday, telling him that the tongue sounded like part of a Santeria ritual.<\/p>\n

A reporter from the Portland Tribune tipped The News to a similar case in January, when needle-studded cow tongues were found in an Oregon park. The names of undercover police officers scheduled to testify in a drug case were found written on papers imbedded inside.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least Stop Snitching T-shirts didn’t do any overt physical harm . . . like this pin-filled beef tongue: The tongue, found in Central Park, may have been left over from a “hoodoo” spell designed to keep a witness from testifying in court, experts in the African-American form of folk magic told the Daily News […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culturalanthropological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}