Tayvoodoo & Abracadabra: Red Queen of Snakes (2/11/25)

A woman was spotted in the stands of Super Bowl 59 poking a Patrick Mahomes fetish-voodoo doll with a pin, causing some to speculate that this was the reason for the team’s, and the quarterback's, terrible performance. While some scoff, others are serious. In fact, the New Orleans Saints were the first, and maybe the only, NFL team to officially employ voodoo practitioners for assistance in winning a playoff game in 2000. A ritual featuring a large snake was performed  at the 50-yard line, and at locations outside the super dome, which had been built on a cemetery. As for this year’s game, Taylor Swift’s presence, which has resulted in a 13-3 record for the Chiefs, prior to the big game, has generated a new form of the magical practice termed Tayvoodoo. This, of course, shares a relationship with the accusations of witchcraft and sorcery that the singer has faced over the last five years. According to Mambo Brandi C. Kelley - an initiated Voodoo Priestess and owner of Voodoo Authentica - there may be some truth to Tayvoodoo too: “When you have someone that is so in the public eye and comes with her own gigantic fan club, you're not only dealing with Chiefs fans, you're dealing with Taylor Swift fans all in a group just throwing that energy of love."Of all the famous celebrities at the game, Lady Gaga also performed a benefit song for the victims of disaster prior to kickoff, and was referred to as the ABRACADABRA singer throughout. In an interview with ELLE, she talks about the struggles of life, saying that the song is “about facing the challenge of life and the challenge of the night and finding the magic in it all." She attempts to break those spells in the song: “I’m fighting against it with everything… I’m serving against it.” She was asked about the lady in red, contrast with the white lady, and later says “the song has a spell in it.” As for ABRACADABRA, this charm has been used for ages to cure disease and to repel acts of poison and witchcraft! It is strongly associated with inverted triangles - as we saw at the Super Bowl halftime show - since the letters are written downward to dissolve distress. It is also linked directly with ABRAXAS, the golden age god!-FREE ARCHIVE (w. ads)SUBSCRIPTION ARCHIVEX / TWITTER FACEBOOKWEBSITEPAYPALCashApp: $rdgable EMAIL: [email protected] / [email protected] a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tst-radio--5328407/support.