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REAL VAMPIRE KILLING KIT, Original by Crystobal..
Another Vampire Killing Kit-From a Different Maker-Creator
Vintage Vampire Killing Kts at Ripley's
Auction Kings- Vampire Killing Kit-Episode
Shopping for a Vampire Hunting-Killing Kit
Vampire Killing Kit- Take a Look Inside a 19th Century Killing Kit
DEATH DEALER'S AND THIER TRAVEL SIZE WOODEN BOXES OF PAIN AND VENGENCE.
The Old Fashioned Vampire Killing Kit with Garlic Syringe -- This one sold on Ebay. Supposedly dates to circa 1880 Romania. Contains knife, syringe (for garlic solution), metal teeth pliers (for removing fangs), miscellaneous crosses, and bottles of holy soil. Is it just me, or does that mallet look kind of small?
The London Great Exhibition Vampire Hunting Kit -- This one sold at Sotheby's for $12,000. It was supposedly originally offered for sale at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851. Oh, those wacky Victorians
The Cross Gun & MYOB (Make Your Own Bullets) Vampire Kit -- Also sold at Sotheby's. Part of a set of two made by the dubious "Nicolas Plomdeur" who is supposedly a master gunmaker. Larger one comes with a "make your own bullet" mold. That cross is actually a gun. Comes with small powder keg and mahogany stake. Fancy!
The Professor Ernst Blomberg Vampire Hunting Kit -- There are many kits floating around made by 19th century quack Professor Ernst Blomberg.
The Luxury Vampire Hunting Kit, Retro-Style -- This one, called French Vampire Hunting Kit, No.3,
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Long before vampires were the sparkling love interests of every tween girl, they were feared by everyone from innocent children to wise old priests. The intelligent thing to do, as everyone knew, was to kill them on sight. These antique 19th century vampire killing kits have caused quite a stir in the last couple of years among auction-goers, with the one above selling for a shocking $14,850 in 2008
These kits were apparently not made as jokes: they are solid, high-quality tools that would have been quite expensive when new. What would the original owner of this kit think if he or she could see the way tweens fawn over vampires these days? Those tweens would no doubt be the subject of some suspicion for sympathizing with such evil supernatural beings.
When we inspected the box it seemed to contain various devices of the sort that could be used hunting and destroying vampires. Alongside these remarkable contraptions lay detailed writings that upon further scrutiny were found to consist of a major life long study encompassing the shadowy world of vampires and vampirism.
All items and notes that could possibly reveal the donator, or his late father’s, identity had been carefully removed, but what we have been able to ascertain after studying the various contents of the box is that the previous owner was active as a vampire hunter from the end of the 19th century up until the middle of the 1940s. We also know that he had comprehensive medical training and that he was active in Western Europe, Russia, and on at least one occasion in the Middle East.
With these rare items in our possession and with the increased knowledge they have brought with them, we are now in a position to present the modern public with the astonishing story of a Swedishmedical doctor’s long forgotten struggle against the undead during the first decades of the last century
FROM the website -http://www.cagliostro.se
Original title 'Al Azif' - azif being the word used by the Arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos'd to be the howling of daemons.
For his novels, the American writer H P Lovecraft, created the fictional book The Necronomicon. In Lovecraft´s gothic world of horror The Necronomicon is a book containing appalling truths about the concealed history of the world and dark rituals with the power to destroy all life on earth. Ever since Lovecraft through his novels aroused interest in The Necronomicon both inquisitive readers and students of the occult have discussed the possibilities of The Necronomicon´s real life existence. What is the dark truth hidden behind H P Lovecraft´s fictional grimoire?
Over the years many theories have been presented and many fake copies of the book have appeared. But the best clues to the true history behind the mythical Necronomicon we find in Lovecraft´s own writing. Lovecraft is careful to say that his Necronomicon is a work of fiction, but in his own biography of Necronomicon (History of the Necronomicon. 1927) he makes many deliberate mistakes that give us clues to the truth behind Lovecraft's fiction. A truth that Lovecraft himself probably was well aware of, but didn’t consider appropriate to reveal through his short stories and novels.
Lovecraft tells us that his Necronomicon is written during the 700's AD by the mad Arab, Abdul Al Hazred, in Damascus. But who was the real author of this remarkable book? The astrologer and writer, Abu 'Ali al-Hasan, has been indicated by many. Also the Jewish mystic Alhazen ben Joseph has been proposed. Most, however, suggests that Lovecraft's mad Arab Abdul Al-Hazred´s real name was Abu al-Husayn, known as Ibn al-Rawandi or Rhazes.
The NecronomiconRhazes was born in 827 A.D in Marwarrudh, present-day northern Afghanistan. Early in his life he joined the Islam-critical Mutazila of Baghdad, and gained prominence among them. He also studied Kabbalah, Sufism, Arabic and Christian Gnosticism. He writes several books in both theology and philosophy, the most famous of these being the Kitab al-Zumurrud (The blinding emerald), of which only fragments remain.
After his years of occult studies Rhazes began to undertake pilgrimages and expeditions to remote and wild places. He spends several months with an unknown master deep in the ad-Dahna desert before he disappears for more than 10 years without a trace in the Rub 'al Khali´s red desert. According to his own writing, he lives during this time in the lost mythical city of Iram, where he is studying ancient and secret teachings.
When he finally leaves Iram and the Rub 'al Khali desert, he travels to Alexandria and Cairo and then to the necropolis of Saqqarah in Memphis. Rhazes devoted the rest of his life to the study of the occult and to the writing of his book, Al Azif. According to the medieval historian Ibn Khallikan, the aged Rhazes probably dies in Damascus in the year 911 A.D, while the German history scholar and theologian Josef van Ess place Rhaze´s death in Alexandria in 919 A.D. Both refer to the Jewish writer and mystic Ephraim ibn al-Za'faran, who without mentioning any details, claims that the aged Rhazes died a very violent death.
Grigorij Jefimovitj RasputinThe Al Azif is spread in only a few copies among Arab mystics and theologians. The book is banned as soon as the contents become known and all known copies are destroyed. During the early 1100'sAl Azif is translated into Greek, probably in The Monastery of Saint Paul the Anchorite in Egypt, and given the title Νεκρονομικòν (Necronomicon). In 1211 the Greek translation is banned, and all known copies burned by the Constantinople Patriarch Michael IV Autoreianos.
In the early 14th century the Al Azif is for the first time translated into latin by Arnaldus Villa Nova (1235-1311), probably based on a now lost Arabic original. In 1389 Pope Boniface IX bans both Arnaldus the Villas Latin translation and the earlier Greek. Boniface orders all the copies he could find to be burned.
Some sources claim that one of the Greek translations of the Necronomicon comes to Russia at the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The book was allegedly kept in the in the Czar's private library until the fall of the Tsarist empire. There are rumours about additional copies that were printed during the 1500s. Rasputin claimed to own one of these books, which supposedly was a gift from Tsar Nicholas´s third wife. None of these copies are known today.
The only known copy of the original Arabic Al Azif text, and the banned Greek translation, was destroyed or stolen when Bedouins looted the Monastery of Saint Paul the Anchorite and burned its library in the year 1448 A.D.
In 1541 the German alchemist and mystic Theophrastus Paracelsus prints his own German translation of Arnaldus the Villa Nova's version. A copy of Paracelsus's book is said to have been taken as booty by the Swedes in Prague in 1648 but was probably destroyed in the great fire at the Royal Palace in Stockholm in 1697.
During the early 1600s the English mystic Dr John Dee completes his translation of the Villas Latin Necronomicon into English. The text is not published until after Dr. Dee's death. Meric Casaubon prints Dee’s English translation in a very small edition in 1651.
In 1652 the Danish physician Olaus Wormius is having Arnaldus the Villa Nova's Latin translation printed in Germany.
The Necronomicon, in all its versions, are considered by experts to be one of humanity's most dangerous books. The horrific insights and dark truths that this book, in a frighteningly convincing way, gives its readers, has often led to insanity and death. In addition to the ancient truths and foreboding prophecies, the book also contains spells and incantations, which in the wrong hands can do unthinkable damage. All known copies of The Necronomicon are therefore kept under lock and key and are not available to the public. Several organizations and society’s are for different reasons searching for any copies of the book that is still in private hands. Any attempt to spread the Necronomicon´s content has failed due to accidents which are either blamed on the curse that seem to accompany the book, or on any of the conspiracies that surrounds everything concerning The Necronomicon.
Our copy of Dr. John Dee's English translation of the Necronomicon, in Meric Casaubons 1651 edition, are included in the original inventory lists and we do not know how it originally ended up in our collections.
The book and its contents are not accessible to the public. We exhibit only those pages from the book that authorities in the area considerers harmless.
