Vincenzi initially paid the owner, Miriam Pacheco, $50.

In return for the $50 Pacheco, a “Santeria Africana” spiritual adviser and healer, told him that he was a “walking dead man” — and his housekeeper was poisoning his food.

And only she could help, reports The Naples Daily News.

Over time Pacheco treated him with ritualistic ceremonies involving a dead bird, a sacrificed rooster, liquid potions, prayers and chants by Maria Teresa Torres, Pacheco's Santerian “god-daughter,” and another god-daughter, reports The Naples Daily News.

Pacheco later told him to pay her $500 so he could move into the home she shared with Torres, according to court records.

Eventually Pacheco took Vincenzi to a lawyer, where he signed away his motel to her. Vincenzi did this in order to save himself from demonic spirits and attempts on his life, according the The Naples Daily News.

Pacheco then evicted Vincenzi.

He lost his Jaguar, pickup truck, motorboat and possessions after the eviction — but Pacheco and Torres deny taking his vehicles, according to court docments.

Now Vincenzi is suing Pacheco to get back his motel.

Pacheco's attorney, Joseph Hoffman, just considers it a case involving a language barrier: Vincenzi speaks English, while Pacheco and Torres only speak Spanish, Hoffman told The Naples Daily News.

Vincenzi, who ended up marrying Torres’ daughter, was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital under the state’s Baker Act at some point, upset over the loss of his motel and fearing Pacheco’s predictions of doom would come true, reports The Naples Daily News.

In the end, a jury also awarded Vincenzi $99,500 for the loss of his motel and attached home.

But Pacheco doesn’t have $99,000, reports The Naples Daily News.

So now Vincenzi's attorney is working on a rescission of deed so Vincenzi can get his motel back.

In the meantime, amid accusations, lawsuits and restraining orders, depositions show Pacheco and Torres, who have only elementary school educations, are working at the motel and Pacheco’s store.

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