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They didn’t have a prayer – but maybe they voo-do now.
A Voodoo King descended on Citi Field Tuesday, using a goat’s head and black magic to try to undo the dreaded Curse of the Mambino that saw the Mets lose 11 straight games.
Michael Washington, who goes by the name Tata Tilk, wore a black cloak and used a cauldron outside the stadium to try undo the socialist sorcery fuming fans believe was unleashed when Mayor Zohran Mamdani hugged mascots Mr. and Mrs. Met on April 9.
“These spells that were put on the Mets team came from dark entities, so it’s going to take dark entities to remove it,” Washington told The Post.
“I’m going to do a full reversal and send it back to the witches and wizards that sent it, because it was more than one person that actually did the affliction on the team,” he added, explaining that one of those warlocks was the fledgling mayor himself.
“I’m removing Mayor Mamdani’s malevolent witchcraft. I’m getting his name, date of birth, things like that, and getting the curse he placed on the team when he hugged the mascot away from the team.”
The curse supposedly settled like a malevolent cloud over the Amazins on April 9 after Hizzoner visited Citi Field for a pro-worker photo opp. But the team proceeded to lose its next 10 games, part of an 11-game slide that dropped them to last place in the National League East.
Some speculated the curse came from Hizzoner touching Mr. Met without the permission of his loving wife, Mrs. Met, who was standing nearby.
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“He gave them bad juju. Bad juju. That was bad juju, that was no good,” Mets superfan Nelson Berrios previously speculated about the fateful embrace. “When he hugged them, I was like what’s going on? Nobody touches Mr. Met, only Mrs. Met, that’s it.”
And when Washington/Tilk saw the headlines that Mamdani’s black magic might be to blame for the Mets’ ill fate he knew there was only one person who could save them from an eternity of damnation – himself.
Washington got to work with his cauldron and talismans — a goat skull, human bones, lightning-struck rocks and meteorites. He added scoops of dirt from the Citi Field flower beds and parking lot to the mix, which he said were needed to “harvest the energy from the team and harvest the energy between what has caused conflict for the team.”
He then began the incantation, which bellowed up into the sky and there mingled with the thunderous roars of passing 7 trains and planes soaring from LaGuardia on high.
“What was taken from the Mets team, what was taken from them shall return,” he commanded. “They seek theirs that was denied them. Take the ones who cursed them and deprived them.”
“Fathers of the night, winged lords from death and the hereafter, they seek more wealth, fame, success and solace,” he said. “Drink their enemies’ blood until they have nothing left, chew their enemies’ flesh until they have nothing left, grind their enemies bones into dust.”
When he was done, Washington said simply: “They will be totally satisfied.”
“I know for a fact — I’m not confident, I know — that they will make the playoffs. They will be better than the Yankees,” he foretold. “I know because I’ve done magic on the Yankees. With the Mets, I promise that they will actually have the team that they dreamed of.”
“The magic is going to hit all of them, the agents, the team, everyone who’s involved. I’ll make sure they get to the World Series.”
Bystanders looking on were bewildered by the sight – but said they’d take their chances with a voodoo king if they must.
“I was taught to stay away from voodoo, but I was also promised a Mets World Series in my lifetime. Let’s call it even,” said 28-year-old Noah Lefkowitz. “If the only thing that can take away the curse of Zohran is black magic, I’ll take it at this point.”
“Anything to turn this team around.”
Additional reporting by Nicole Rosenthal
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