9/5/2023 0 Comments Dybbuk box ebay![]() ![]() Nowhere in the folkloric literature is there precedent for a dybbuk inhabiting a box or other inanimate object.īut of course, we're talking definitions of folkloric terms, fictional by their very definition so there's no reason why this particular dybbuk can't inhabit a wooden box if it wants to. The word comes from the Hebrew verb "to cling", so a dybbuk is specifically a soul who clings to another. An important 1914 Yiddish play The Dybbuk was about the spirit of a dead man who possessed the living body of the woman he had loved, and had to be exorcised. The Encyclopedia Mythica describes it as "a disembodied spirit possessing a living body that belongs to another soul" and usually talks from that person's mouth. The whole idea of the box being inhabited by a dybbuk (דיבבוק) is nonsensical, according to what a dybbuk is supposed to be. Why? Because, according to the story, the wine box was inhabited by a "dybbuk", said to be a tormented spirit come back from the dead. Whoever owned the box, it was said, experienced terrible disturbances for as long as the box was in their home. It is the story of a small antique wooden box designed to hold a few bottles of wine, to which was attached a horror story going all the way back to the Holocaust. It went from a screenwriter's pen on an eBay auction page, all the way onto the Hollywood big screen, with 2012's The Possession starring Kyra Sedgwick and directed by Sam Raimi. The famous "dybbuk box" (also spelled dibbuk) is one such story. ![]() Every once in a while, there's a small, local ghost story that's not very good, or that even has an obvious commercial origin, and that has no business becoming popular - but it does. ![]()
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