{"id":8309,"date":"2016-11-01T12:35:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T18:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2016-11-01T12:35:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T18:35:07","slug":"a-curse-in-the-form-of-an-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8309","title":{"rendered":"A Curse in the Form of an Animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embeds.vice.com\/?playerId=ed5eb0b71f8741c69b07b49cccbdaaf5&amp;aid=broadly.vice.com\/videos&amp;vid=1rNWY1NzE6J2JJh6J3AEALW4lz0XCwnL&amp;embedCode=1rNWY1NzE6J2JJh6J3AEALW4lz0XCwnL&amp;cust_params=embdom%3D%25252F%25252Fbroadly.vice.com%25252Fen_us%25252Fvideo%25252Fcasting-curses-and-love-spells-with-the-most-powerful-witches-in-romania%26topic%3Dvideos%26auth%3Dbroadly-staff%26keywords%3Dwitchcraft%252Cromania%252Cwitch-tax%252Cmihaela-minca%252Cwitches%252Csummer-solstice%252Cvideos%252Challoween%252Cbratara-buzea%26ac%3Dno%26country%3Den_us%26contentId%3D1rNWY1NzE6J2JJh6J3AEALW4lz0XCwnL%26aid%3Dcasting-curses-and-love-spells-with-the-most-powerful-witches-in-romania&amp;ad_rule=1&amp;description_url=\/\/broadly.vice.com\/en_us\/video\/casting-curses-and-love-spells-with-the-most-powerful-witches-in-romania&amp;autoplay=off;share_url=\/\/broadly.vice.com\/en_us\/video\/casting-curses-and-love-spells-with-the-most-powerful-witches-in-romania\" width=\"582px\" height=\"343x\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn Romania, old-style witchcraft is thriving after <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Romania#Communism\">the fall of the Communist government in 1989.<\/a>\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/broadly.vice.com\/en_us\/video\/casting-curses-and-love-spells-with-the-most-powerful-witches-in-romania\">Link here<\/a> if the video does not load.) A fee of \u20ac500 for a curse \u2014 and it is tax-free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Romania, old-style witchcraft is thriving after the fall of the Communist government in 1989.\u00a0 (Link here if the video does not load.) A fee of \u20ac500 for a curse \u2014 and it is tax-free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[292,29],"class_list":["post-8309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-romania","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-2a1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11490,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11490","url_meta":{"origin":8309,"position":0},"title":"Mircea Eliade, Witches, and Fascists","author":"Chas S. 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