Babble-Wrong (Bablyon) Tales -Pitch Lake

Left: Pitch Lake, Trinidad

Right: The Sacred Hummingbird

There once was a village in Trinidad where people broke a taboo; a taboo I was taught myself by the first person to teach me conjure, albeit not for culinary reasons. These villagers killed and ate the hummingbird. I was just advised not to kill one…but I could use any dead ones I found; otherwise the “good spirits” would be angry and refuse to assist me. So what happens when you break that taboo and eat them? Apparently, your village gets swallowed up by a pitch lake hell mouth filled with the tormented souls of the cursed.

What makes this important is a man named Amzi Lorenzo Barber thought it was an excellent idea to utilize Pitch Lake, the largest natural asphalt deposit in the world, through a 42 year monopoly secured from the British government, and made many of the first asphalt roads in WASHINGTON D.C., NEW YORK CITY, and other cities across the Eastern United States of America.

Picture it…..hell-mouth cursed lake, filled with the souls of the accursed, pumped up by “the Asphalt King”; with all it’s collected fuckery vibes intact; and spread across the streets of American government and commerce; which…everyone can agree seems to be cursed and filled with evil spirits. In this case, the evil spirits of hummingbird murderers from cursed pitch lakes.