A sighted mother and daughter are being sued in New York by a woman who alleges they scammed her by asking for $160 ,000 dollars, promising to vanquish an evil “Jezebel” spirit within her and reunite her with a ex-boyfriend.
According to court documents in the lawsuit, beginning in October, clairvoyants Honeybee Green and Megan Green extorted money from the victim by promising to kill the “profane sexual spirit” that lived in her pelvic area because she was sexually abused as a baby.
Over the course of three months, the couple “took advantage” of the woman’s “depressed and impressionable state” to enrich themselves, alleges the lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Manhattan Supreme Court.
The wife of 27 years old, whose name is being withheld for being a victim of sexual abuse, went to the East Village store ( NYC) called “Readings by Honeybee” on 28 in October looking for a tarot card reading after “a recent breakup and a desire to live a more holistic and positive life,” court documents state.
There, Megan reportedly convinced the woman to stay in the store overnight for another $200 dollars, in addition to the $50 for reading of tarot cards, to perform a “meditative service”, the lawsuit alleges, reported New York Post.
The next day, Megan and Honeybee told the plaintiff that she was cursed with a “Jezebel spirit” and that it would reject all future romances if she didn’t “kill” him, the suit states. This left the woman “fearful for her own mental and physical well-being,” and impressed by the couple’s “charismatic graces.”
During the following weeks they kept asking him for money, including $160, dollars to help her get back together with her ex. The amount was purportedly to be used for spiritual materials, including a “‘golden Buddha’ to act as ‘spiritual armor,'” the court documents allege.
At one point the woman got fed up and asked to get all his money back, but Honeybee and Megan only offered him half of the $160,000 dollars spent up to that point, the lawsuit states.
Now the former client is suing them for unspecified damages for fraud, deceptive practices and related claims. Honeybee and Megan did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
During the pandemic, New Yorkers’ inquiries to psychics, astrologers, and fortune tellers appear to have increased amid the wave of unemployment, death, stress, loneliness, violence, idleness, isolation, and uncertainty that dominated the city.