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BE 2516 LP Liew First Batch King Turtle Amulet
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Thai Coin Silver Case
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Bali Sterling Silver, Mexican Trade Sardonyx and Indigofera Howlite Buddha Head Guru
Fifty-Four Count Mala Necklace
A Spell Box of the Main Seance and Reading Room Find
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This is another of our very long listings with an abundant text and 12 photographs, so please sit back and read the listing through.
If you have come this far, we feel you will find it was worth the wait.
Twenty-two years (12/06/2001) have now passed since we were called to do an estate that had been closed up for seventeen years!
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The Voodoo Estate!
This type of call usually gets us excited as they are a treasure trove. Located here in Florida, there was no electricity or running water so we rigged our own lighting and in we went. If you have ever seen the Adams Family you will have some idea as to what we were greeted with! Then the attorney handling the liquidation gave us some background. The estate had belonged to an alleged powerful Voodoo Priestess/JooJoo Exorcist, grand daughter of a Marie Laveau, and favored daughter of a Marie Glapion.
These names meant nothing to us, but the late night talk of Voodoo and exorcism in the old mansion was enough for us to spend the night in a hotel and return in the morning to assess the estate. The rest is history.
Our research has shown that this woman was what she claimed and was indeed descended from a long line of well known Vodoun family originating in New Orleans in the early 1800's.
We were pretty unnerved by this until we discovered they were also devout Catholics! Although I have to admit this was unlike any Catholic home we have ever been in and some of the items found inside were a bit disturbing.
There was no feeling of dread or unwelcome in the mansion, however there was quite a bit of contraband and other items we can or will not sell here.
This is one of a few pieces from this estate we will be listing this week, so check our other listings!
We will, upon the new guardian's request, issue a named Letter of Authenticity with each piece from this estate, complying with the terms set forth to us by the estate's attorney.
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Some Back Story
The amulet mala necklace shown here is one of the six that were found and recovered from the antique jewelry casket (shown above and not part of this deal). It is last of the three boxes recovered from a cabinet in the foyer lounge to her main seance and reading room. These rooms were a commercial endeavor that had a wealthy following and it is where many of the major seances of this estate were conducted. Many, if not all of her associates worked this room, conducting seances, card readings and numerous forms of divination for their clientele. Apparently this was a lucrative endeavor, as it remained active for over six decades. Her journals tell us they had loaded this box with items they felt they could sell at a premium, whether through enchantments they had placed on them and/or through an items history of its own.
Their journals list a host of well known psychics, mediums and other celebrities that would make guest appearances and that these events were booked to capacity well in advance.
BE 2516 LP Liew First Batch King Turtle Amulet
The maker of this amulet was Luang Phor Liew of Wat RaiTangThong. He studied the knowledge of Pa Ya Tow from LP Yong of Wat Ban KongYai, in the Ratchaburi Province of Thailand.
He recited his first incantations of the Pa Ya Tow in B.E. 2516 (1973). Pa Ya Tow is a powerful protection, metta, attracting wealth and good luck. The Pa Ya Tow (King Turtle) became the symbol of LP Piew. He was the guru monk known for making these amulets with the intended effects of bringing prosperity, longevity, success, fertility and security to worshippers.
It is essentially a wealth amulet which their journals and our own research tell us is a First Batch, B.E.2516 Phaya Tao Ruen or turtle copper coin by LP Liew of significant value.
Legend has it Luang Phor Liew blessed his turtle amulets for lengthy periods of time, chanting over them while soaking them in his blessed holy water, chanting them until the turtle could swim in the holy water.
Luang Phor Liew
He was born on December 7th., B.E.2448 (1905) in Ratchaburi province, Thailand. His family were poor farmers and he grew up helping them make their way. Thieves had stolen their livestock and stores prompting him to study magic in order to protect his family and their property.
LP Liew, along with two cousins went to the study this magic from an Ajarn Mong that practiced at the frontier between Thailand and Myanmar.
One cousin died from malaria while the second cousin abandoned the quest, heading home before beginning the studies, leaving LP Liew on his own to pursue these studies. Study he did, spending three years under the tutelage of AJ Mong before returning home proficient in the magic to protect his family and village from harm.
News of thieves In the night soon circulated and they soon visited the farm of LP Liew’s family where they attempted to steal a bull and a cow but they were unable to complete their thievery. The next morning the family found bloodstains around the farm. LP Liew had made a magical water buffalo amulet out of sacred clays to protect his family and their farm.
Although he never married, he had a son out of wedlock but he decided that his calling was to ordain as a Buddhist monk at the age of 27 years old.
LP Liew was ordained at Wat Bot, in Ratchaburi province. After his ordination he went on to continue his studies of magic and mediation from many famous monks such as LP Dang of Wat Khao Bandai It, LP Khlai of Wat Suan Khan and others. He helped develop many temples such as Wat Rai Tang Thong and Wat Sanam Yae. Luang Phor Liew passed away on September 4th., B.E.2543 (2000) at the age of 95 years old.
The amulet uncased measures approximately 1 3/8" x 1 3/4".
Their journals and inventory go on to tell us six of these amulet necklace malas were made posthumously for this LiDiex in 1973, as stated above. Examination reveals a Bali Sterling Silver, Mexican Trade Sardonyx and Indigofera Howlite Buddha Head Guru, Fifty-Four Count Mala Necklace, for a single amulet, as the title implies.
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She writes of the acquisition of a large quantity of this sinew from a, "Chinese healer and talisman maker known for and sought for his works," purchased at the Namche Bazaar of Nepal in 1928.
We have been contacted and visited by a number of people who were interested in the items from this estate since our first batch was listed. Among the buyers have been known psychics and practitioners. More than one, after adorning themselves or handling their purchase, stated, "this is a woman of power!" Many of our customers, after receiving items from this estate have reported dream contacts and other unexplained phenomenon. Unusual, authentic Voodoo Priestess Estate piece and at a bargain price!
This is truly a rare opportunity to own anything with attributes to this estate. The majority of this estate is now gone. Most of what we had left, and it was considerable, has been split up and sold to a couple of private, foreign collector practitioners and will never be available to the public again. We made the decision to do this as we have had some pretty strange visits from even stranger individuals and there have been enough unexplained phenomenon going on in the warehouse where her things were kept that many of our employees refused to go in there. The pieces offered and sold here are some of the few remaining pieces that will ever be offered to the public.
Nice addition to any collection, altar, wardrobe or decor, displays really well.
Really doesn't get any better than this.
There are 12 photographs, so please give them time to load, and enjoy the listing.
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