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Weird evil magic suitcase selling for $500,000

 
 
paw
22:50 / 24.06.02
just found this on e-bay. Hope the link works. My pound coin is in the kitty, who's next?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=886090622
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
05:17 / 25.06.02
i.e., Dad's old tackle box with a can of baked beans and a "Ghostbusters II" junior novelization in it.
 
 
RiffRaff
05:56 / 25.06.02
What an amazing scam. Wish I'd thought of it.

Would selling cheaply-made "amulets" and "charms" on eBay be considered "selling out"? :P I think I've just discovered how to make my beer-and-comics money while I'm in school...

--Riff
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
08:14 / 25.06.02
This is a sort of e-bay tradition now. So far I've heard of haunted pictures, haunted dolls, a haunted vase all being sold over e-bay. I vote we all get together and make up something like this. Then say it's a fake. Then say we all need our houses blessed, and don't leave it lying around where there's kids or anything.
 
 
Sebastian
11:20 / 25.06.02
This reminds me those early XX century ghost stories in which a well educated chap with interests in occultism buys something from an old librarian or from a deranged man in the streets, unleashing then, well, the souls of whatever was appropriate, and goes deranged himself to sell it to the next chap. I am going to keep the description of the item for literary interest.

Now, imagine one of those fashionable richies buy it, and they open it during his fourth divorce party, and then we have a Hollywood movie five years later recounting the whole thing.

My mother has kept somewhere my own little boy's tooth. Do you think they might sell in this collection? "The early dentitition of an old buddha, dropped from his gums at the time the lamas' sacred priests were communicated by the gods his holy destiny, and which were kept and worshipped for centuries in a hidden part of an antique tibetan monastery, come now to your hands after years of wandering through the care of disguised and fugitive adepts, who can no longer bear this sacred responsiblity. Buy them and decorate your bathroom. Opening bid: US$ 750.000"
 
 
Bill Posters
16:08 / 25.06.02
I seem to recall that a guy sold his soul on E-bay recently. (They fetch around $10, should you be interested in selling / buying.)

Is this 'dark magus in a suitcase' anything to do with our very own 'boy in a suitcase'? 'Tis an eerie coincidence if ever there was one...
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:44 / 25.06.02
A piece on the ebay "haunted" painting can be found here

(My own personal theory about the story behind the "haunted" painting can be found here.)
 
 
The Monkey
17:05 / 25.06.02
Can anyone say, "fun with reliquaries"?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
20:06 / 25.06.02
Monkey: That simply and indubitably has to be done.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
23:16 / 25.06.02
I don't think you can sell the soul on eBay. IIRC, their stance is that if the soul does exist, then it would come under the "body parts" banned-from-eBay list - and if it doesn't, then you can't sell it because you're not allowed to sell things that don't exist. Hence, the person selling the moon the other day had to include a t-shirt - that's what made the auction legit.

I can check this with my friend: he works for 'em in Sydney, and should know...
 
 
paw
00:00 / 26.06.02
he sold his soul in an empty glass jar. thats how
 
 
Boy in a Suitcase
01:36 / 26.06.02
Aiii! I will say nothing.
We should get together and make up something like this, though, that could be really cool. We could sell some kind of haunted relic of a dead celebrity or historical figure. i.e., "The Haunted Dog-Shaver of Ivan the Terrible!" or "The Haunted, Preserved Facial Mole of Howard Taft!" or "The Haunted Empty Vodka Bottle of Don Knotts!!!"
 
 
RiffRaff
07:17 / 26.06.02
"The Haunted Empty Vodka Bottle of Don Knotts!!!"

That might actually have a slim possibility... he's from my hometown. Maybe I can get my mom to do some research.

--Riff
 
 
Rev. Jesse
17:18 / 26.06.02
I love how the Big Box o' Evil is coming from Salt Lake City?

"Golden Tablets? What are these Golden Tablets doing in here? I thought I was getting books of black magic, not some kind of sour gold leaf. Who's this Mormoni and what kind of a name is Joe Smith for a dark magus anyway.

-Rev. Jesse

Note: I tried to post this a few seconds ago, but the board bogged out on me. Maybe its the hand of this dark magus reaching from beyound its Samsonite prison!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
23:31 / 26.06.02
Doesn't surprise me. They'll belive anything in Salt Lake City.

Having said that, the Box o' Dooom has been on sale since the seventeenth and the last time I looked it had exactly 0 bids.

Maybe if they threw in an Ornamental Samovar Of Mild Annoyances, they might get some interest. Or a Biscuit Tin Of Slightly Soggy Bourbon Creams.
 
 
RiffRaff
06:30 / 27.06.02
Auction's over, and nobody bid on the thing. Doesn't surprise me, considering the guy was asking half a fucking million for a box of could-bes and a couple so-called grimoires. Dumbass. If he'd asked for a hundred bucks, he might have gotten five hundred, which is probably fifty times what it cost him to cobble that collection of shite together.
 
 
Sebastian
12:01 / 27.06.02
If he'd asked for a hundred bucks, he might have gotten five hundred,

I agree.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
17:39 / 27.06.02
Well, you see, anyone who belives in this magick nonsense is so unbeliveably stupid that we'll fall hook, line, and sinker for this kind of thing. Also, we all have tons and tons of money hidden away under our beds-- just in case a fabulously old grimore or forbidden relic should come up for sale.
 
 
Vadrice
18:24 / 27.06.02
aah. a shame I missed it.

~puts the padlock back on his matress~
 
 
Yagg
00:03 / 28.06.02
Universal Export, eh? Mr. Bond? Property of a lady Magus, perhaps?
 
  
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