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silversolitaireUNIQUE RARE ROMANIAN VAMPIRE KILLING KIT, Dracula 1860
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14286&item=6515456792&rd=1
O.o;
Okay, I don't really believe this. I don't think this is genuine, or anything... but wow, this is fucking cool! ^^; It goes straight into the heart of a freaky medical instruments lover such as I. And in a way this IS a medical instrument... wow. Too bad I'm not filthy rich... *g*. Very cool. I'm saving the description here for my own reference.
Vampire Killing Kit
Private Auction !
The box weights 21 lbs., length 15.5 inches , width 8.9 inches , height 6.8 inches ; made of linden tree with maroon velvet inside, eight compartments, iron padlocks. The items enclosed in the box are as followed: one wooden hammer (6.2 in. long), four stakes 6.4 inches-each) --- the wooden hammer has applied a small holy cross, same as the stakes; the lower side containing: prayer book, crucifix, knife and eight bottles with Pamant (holy soil), Agheazma (holy water), Mir (anointing oil), Tamaie (holy incense), Usturoi (garlic), red serum, blue serum and wild rose petals .
It is believed that a romanian monk from Transylvania has created this box during the period of 1850-1900 .
The old Prayer Book is written in the old Romanian , experts are calling that language the Chirilica and it is believed that the Bible is from the 19th century-leather covers .There is a mith saying whoever is able to read from this Book , he will be able to win the fight with the dark forces , demons , vampires and other demonic creatures .
All the genuine kits are not in english language
The knife is 13 inches long and the blade has a gothic theme craved on it . It is made of heavy metal and has engraved angels and demons , the handle of the knife is made of heavy metal .
The metal box contains one syringe and it was used to inject liquid garlic or secret serums into vampires .It has a small cross on it . The syringe can sustain temperatures up to 200 Celsius degrees .The cross is very old , with red beautiful old stones and is on a very old metal chain .
No needles included for the syringes . Against Ebay policy and guidelines !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The metal teeth plier ( 7 in ) was used in the past to remove the vampire's teeth .
"Is est Sanctus Res ego sum decessio secundum ut meus pius futurus adsuesco assuesco obviam Malum , Nox noctis Ingredior Nosferatu , Lamia quod Intentus."
and translates into:
"This is the Holy Thing , I am leaving behind to my own kind to be used against the Evil, the Night Walker , Nosferatu , the Vampire and Strigoi ."
" In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen " ( In the name of the Father , the Son and the the Holy Spirit ) .
Some vampire experts claim that kits such as the present lot were very common in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries among travelers to Eastern Europe, particularly the Carpathians, and could be requested from the concierge desk of their hotels. Others claim that the kits originated in twentieth century America and are nothing more than romantic curiosities.
Professor Ernst Blomberg reportedly assembled his kits in the nineteenth century. Many experts, however, believe that his kits were assembled in the early twentieth century in response to the interest in vampires sparked by the popularity of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" published in 1897 .
Vampire legends go back thousands of years and occur in great variety in almost every culture around the world. The vampires we are most familiar with today are largely based on Eastern European legends, which originated in the far East and were transported with trade caravans that traveled along the silk route to the Mediterranean. Who is doomed to become a vampire? A person born with a caul or tail, the illegitimate offspring of two illegitimate persons or anyone who died an unnatural death or before being baptized. Also doomed were witches, the seventh child of the same sex in a family, the child of a pregnant woman who was looked at by a vampire or who did not eat salt, those bitten by vampires and those not properly buried. Precautions to prevent vampirism included burying the body face down, placing a wild, thorny rose on the grave to repel unholy spirits or piling stones to obstruct the demon from rising from the earth. Spreading millet, grains or poppy seeds at the gravesite would distract the vampire, and the smell of garlic buried with the corpse would repel it. Eucharistic symbols of purity or holiness, such as the host wafer and salt, also repelled the demons, and holy water could sear its flesh and, if sprinkled in the grave, sterilized the vampire’s tomb. Holes that appeared in the earth at the gravesite might signal the presence of a vampire, and graves were often opened seven years after death to ensure against vampirism. A corpse that had not decomposed or whose eyes were open was often deemed to be a vampire. Other telltale signs included a ruddy complexion with the mouth and nails clotted with blood, or the corpse floating on a reservoir of blood. If the flesh was punctured with a pin, blood would gush from the body.
Similar kits have sold in these galleries in recent years:
Sotheby's New York, January 11, 1994, sale 6521 lot 394
Fain & Co, Oregon, November 1997 Butterfield & Butterfield, October 29, 1998
Sotheby's, New York, October 30 2003 , 12.000$
Sotheby's, New York, November 01, 2003 , 20,300$
Articles : First Article Click here,
Second Article Click Here ,
Third Article : Click here
Fourth Article : Click here
The origins of the box are in the Carpathian in the Mountains of TRANSYLVANIA, Romania.We have acquired it from a 95 year old priest . This vampire killing kit is genuine and all the text used on it its in Latin and old Romanian. All the genuine kits are not in English language.
This Vampires killing kit is UNIQUE.
ESTIMATED: 17.000 $ to 22.000 $ based on its proven authenticity. The Vampire Kit is recognized by the Department of Culture in Romania and it will be shipped with the certificate of authenticity .The certificate of authenticity is already available for the potential buyers .
Also , the winner will receive a certificate of authenticity released by our Experts under their name and a letter from the priest with instructions and advices .
This is not a toy .Please, we advise not to let minors use it and we cannot take any responsibility on its future use. Do not drink or taste the recipients in the bottles .
After receiving the payment the vampire killing kit will be shipped straight from TRANSYLVANIA, the land of all vampires, the land of Dracula, not from some other country. THIS IS NOT A REPLICA OR A COPY.
Please bid with confidence , Keep in mind that is one single opportunity for all the collectors worldwide .Sold as it is .
We are an auction house and we have aquired the Vampire Killing Kit from an old monastery near the city of Sighisoara , close to Vlad Tepes (Dracula ) 's castle .
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14286&item=6515456792&rd=1
O.o;
Okay, I don't really believe this. I don't think this is genuine, or anything... but wow, this is fucking cool! ^^; It goes straight into the heart of a freaky medical instruments lover such as I. And in a way this IS a medical instrument... wow. Too bad I'm not filthy rich... *g*. Very cool. I'm saving the description here for my own reference.
Vampire Killing Kit
Private Auction !
The box weights 21 lbs., length 15.5 inches , width 8.9 inches , height 6.8 inches ; made of linden tree with maroon velvet inside, eight compartments, iron padlocks. The items enclosed in the box are as followed: one wooden hammer (6.2 in. long), four stakes 6.4 inches-each) --- the wooden hammer has applied a small holy cross, same as the stakes; the lower side containing: prayer book, crucifix, knife and eight bottles with Pamant (holy soil), Agheazma (holy water), Mir (anointing oil), Tamaie (holy incense), Usturoi (garlic), red serum, blue serum and wild rose petals .
It is believed that a romanian monk from Transylvania has created this box during the period of 1850-1900 .
The old Prayer Book is written in the old Romanian , experts are calling that language the Chirilica and it is believed that the Bible is from the 19th century-leather covers .There is a mith saying whoever is able to read from this Book , he will be able to win the fight with the dark forces , demons , vampires and other demonic creatures .
All the genuine kits are not in english language
The knife is 13 inches long and the blade has a gothic theme craved on it . It is made of heavy metal and has engraved angels and demons , the handle of the knife is made of heavy metal .
The metal box contains one syringe and it was used to inject liquid garlic or secret serums into vampires .It has a small cross on it . The syringe can sustain temperatures up to 200 Celsius degrees .The cross is very old , with red beautiful old stones and is on a very old metal chain .
No needles included for the syringes . Against Ebay policy and guidelines !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The metal teeth plier ( 7 in ) was used in the past to remove the vampire's teeth .
"Is est Sanctus Res ego sum decessio secundum ut meus pius futurus adsuesco assuesco obviam Malum , Nox noctis Ingredior Nosferatu , Lamia quod Intentus."
and translates into:
"This is the Holy Thing , I am leaving behind to my own kind to be used against the Evil, the Night Walker , Nosferatu , the Vampire and Strigoi ."
" In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen " ( In the name of the Father , the Son and the the Holy Spirit ) .
Some vampire experts claim that kits such as the present lot were very common in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries among travelers to Eastern Europe, particularly the Carpathians, and could be requested from the concierge desk of their hotels. Others claim that the kits originated in twentieth century America and are nothing more than romantic curiosities.
Professor Ernst Blomberg reportedly assembled his kits in the nineteenth century. Many experts, however, believe that his kits were assembled in the early twentieth century in response to the interest in vampires sparked by the popularity of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" published in 1897 .
Vampire legends go back thousands of years and occur in great variety in almost every culture around the world. The vampires we are most familiar with today are largely based on Eastern European legends, which originated in the far East and were transported with trade caravans that traveled along the silk route to the Mediterranean. Who is doomed to become a vampire? A person born with a caul or tail, the illegitimate offspring of two illegitimate persons or anyone who died an unnatural death or before being baptized. Also doomed were witches, the seventh child of the same sex in a family, the child of a pregnant woman who was looked at by a vampire or who did not eat salt, those bitten by vampires and those not properly buried. Precautions to prevent vampirism included burying the body face down, placing a wild, thorny rose on the grave to repel unholy spirits or piling stones to obstruct the demon from rising from the earth. Spreading millet, grains or poppy seeds at the gravesite would distract the vampire, and the smell of garlic buried with the corpse would repel it. Eucharistic symbols of purity or holiness, such as the host wafer and salt, also repelled the demons, and holy water could sear its flesh and, if sprinkled in the grave, sterilized the vampire’s tomb. Holes that appeared in the earth at the gravesite might signal the presence of a vampire, and graves were often opened seven years after death to ensure against vampirism. A corpse that had not decomposed or whose eyes were open was often deemed to be a vampire. Other telltale signs included a ruddy complexion with the mouth and nails clotted with blood, or the corpse floating on a reservoir of blood. If the flesh was punctured with a pin, blood would gush from the body.
Similar kits have sold in these galleries in recent years:
Sotheby's New York, January 11, 1994, sale 6521 lot 394
Fain & Co, Oregon, November 1997 Butterfield & Butterfield, October 29, 1998
Sotheby's, New York, October 30 2003 , 12.000$
Sotheby's, New York, November 01, 2003 , 20,300$
Articles : First Article Click here,
Second Article Click Here ,
Third Article : Click here
Fourth Article : Click here
The origins of the box are in the Carpathian in the Mountains of TRANSYLVANIA, Romania.We have acquired it from a 95 year old priest . This vampire killing kit is genuine and all the text used on it its in Latin and old Romanian. All the genuine kits are not in English language.
This Vampires killing kit is UNIQUE.
ESTIMATED: 17.000 $ to 22.000 $ based on its proven authenticity. The Vampire Kit is recognized by the Department of Culture in Romania and it will be shipped with the certificate of authenticity .The certificate of authenticity is already available for the potential buyers .
Also , the winner will receive a certificate of authenticity released by our Experts under their name and a letter from the priest with instructions and advices .
This is not a toy .Please, we advise not to let minors use it and we cannot take any responsibility on its future use. Do not drink or taste the recipients in the bottles .
After receiving the payment the vampire killing kit will be shipped straight from TRANSYLVANIA, the land of all vampires, the land of Dracula, not from some other country. THIS IS NOT A REPLICA OR A COPY.
Please bid with confidence , Keep in mind that is one single opportunity for all the collectors worldwide .Sold as it is .
We are an auction house and we have aquired the Vampire Killing Kit from an old monastery near the city of Sighisoara , close to Vlad Tepes (Dracula ) 's castle .
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Date: 2005-02-28 01:19 pm (UTC)How stunning! If you're ever in London, be sure to go to the Old Operating Theatre Museum. It's gloriously cramped and cluttered with all sorts of medical devices, and if you're the sort of person who is sensitive to vibrations/spirits/feelings/what-have-you.. this is the place to feel them. My friends and I had a number of experiences there, especially in the preserved operating theatre itself, which included an original operating table, hundreds of years old. Most of the accounts dated to before antiseptics or anesthetics were invented. So naturally those were replaced by heavy restraints. I grew especially fond of the amputation kits.
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Date: 2005-02-28 01:37 pm (UTC)Now I only need more antique poison bottles and I'll be a happy camper!
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Date: 2005-02-28 06:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-28 06:56 pm (UTC)>>>Pamant (holy soil), Agheazma (holy water), Mir (anointing oil), Tamaie
>>>(holy incense), Usturoi (garlic), red serum, blue serum and wild rose
>>>petals .
They are indeed Romanian words. But pamant means only soil, earth.
Otherwise, cool kit. But it's funny that none of the fairytales that I read when I was a child were about vampires. That should say something.
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Date: 2005-02-28 08:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-28 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-28 08:52 pm (UTC)I have never heard of vampire killing kits, but I hadn't heard of anything vampire in Transylvania until I read Dracula, so I may not be a good source. I think there exist vampires, of what nature and appearance I don't know, but there must be-- there are too many stories. And so there probably exist vampire killing kits. Do you have any idea if Bram Stoker did any research in Transylvanian myths before he wrote the book?
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Date: 2005-02-28 10:19 pm (UTC)As far as I know Stoker did extensive research in Romanian history for his novel and also based parts of the book, such as the count's (?) retelling of his history in works he had found on that dude Vlad something. His notes showed that he did research and he put a lot of effort into creating a genuine historical background, but nowadays scholars doubt the depths of his research. He probably mingled truth and fiction to a great extent. All in all he probably gleaned from a lot of different sources.
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Date: 2005-02-28 10:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-28 10:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-28 11:03 pm (UTC)About Dracula-- I both like it and hate it. Like it cause it's a cool book, but hate it for bastardizing a historical figure. Seems a very superficial thing to do, and commercialistic, and sensationalistic and all other istics.
I mean, now Romania is known as "the country of that vampire". Let alone the fact that it isn't even Romania, it's "Transylvania" most of the time. That's all that most Americans know about my country.
Okay, Vlad Tepes wasn't the most mellow man in history, and I hate him too, for this impalement-- inhuman method of killing people, but there's something good about his time: there were NO thefts, killings, cheatings, nothing, because any crime was punishable by impalement. So they didn't do it. So the people of Wallachia (where btw Vlad Tepes reigned) were quite perfect.
There's a story about a fountain of water having a gold cup near it, and a foreigner wondering, "But why don't people steal it?" And the answer was, of course, that they would be impaled. So everyone drank water from a public gold cup.
And he impaled Turks a lot. For that time, it was considered a good thing. XD
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Date: 2005-02-28 11:05 pm (UTC)btw, anyone know our very own vampiress? Elisabeth Bathory? :p
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Date: 2005-02-28 11:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-28 11:21 pm (UTC)i personally think the "bathing in virgin blood" is bullshit. but there was a documented trial.. that's a fact. how much of the given testimonies is true.. who knows? politics was politics centuries back as well..
here's a site.. http://www.bathory.sk/bat_info/index.htm
(excuse the english)
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Date: 2005-02-28 11:36 pm (UTC)And uhm... yes, that's interesting, but I don't really think that's anything admirable ^^;;;. I mean, one of the biggest achievements of modern society (or let's say Enlightenment, the abandonment of the middle ages) was that we had prisons so we didn't need to kill everyone for the slightest offence. So, terrifying everyone because of overly brutal punishments doesn't exactly mean he was a good statesman ^^;.
But yes, I can see why he has an air of legend around him.
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Date: 2005-02-28 11:46 pm (UTC)I agree, it's not admirable AT ALL.
Of course, one can argue that prison is for some worse than death. I don't know about modern prisons, pretty much anything, but I can't imagine spending all my life in a cell with no computer, nothing to read, nothing to look at and no one to talk to. Brrrr!
Not that I would prefer to be impaled. XD
Those were the middle ages though.. There were other standards.
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Date: 2005-03-01 12:04 am (UTC)Actually, most people say that modern prisons are way too nice. But that's a different story. Yay for prisons. That way you can (at least potentially) punish someone according to their crime. As Tom and I are always saying, there should be a lot more creative punishments out there. Like the guy who hacked Paris Hilton's cell should have every single phone or internet conversation he has made 100% public, and everyone know about it, in addition to fines and possible jailtime. And banned from the net for a certain amount of time afterwards. Stuff like that. But I'm rambling.
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Date: 2005-03-01 12:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-01 12:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-01 02:33 am (UTC)"among the most ambiguous and complex individuals imaginable: a mother, a Countess, a brilliant woman, a wife, polyglot, perhaps bisexual, Pagan, Christian, Muslim as the occasion demanded, political, beautiful, shrewd, ruthless, engaging -- and the murderer of hundreds by her own hand."
from http://www.bathory.org/erzsfaq.html