I just want to know why the rock the frogs are sitting on has lips? You know that ain't right.

I'm utterly ruthless about throwing things out, but I do have one slightly bizarro item... with a tale attached.

A friend of mine visited Peru many years ago, and while there visited some church that had some story about a saint/boy ... she doesn't remember exactly what the story was, but they were selling these little dolls that represented the boy, and if you did X,Y, and Z, the doll is supposed to bring you luck or grant you three wishes or something. Reader, she bought the saintboy doll. And immediately upon returning home, became completely creeped out by him. So she spent years with this doll sitting on a shelf, and every time she looked at him she felt ooky, but she was too superstitious to throw him away. She hated the doll.

Of course, I told her to just get rid of him, or put him away in the back of a deep drawer and forget about him, but she couldn't... she was trapped with the bizarro boy forever. So I told her to give him to me, and that I wouldn't throw him out - and she would be freeee! Free!

So I have him now:

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I can see the ooky.

The fungus is my favorite part.

That's a great story, taz. I hate dolls. Always have. Dismembered my barbies to see what was inside them. I think it's the eyes that freak me out.

I'm a little creeped out.

Well, I have to admit that now he kinda ooks me, too, though I'm not superstitious. She was worried that she would be passing the um... curse... or whatever on to me, but I told her I was invulnerable since I didn't believe in it.

Maybe we should start a Metachat Ooky Saintboy mailshare, where we mail him among us, sharing the curse (or the luck, or just the ook, as the case may be) for a few months at a time. Each Saintboy caretaker has to take a photo of him and add it to ooky saintboy travel gallery before sending him along to his next home.

After my son died we received three angel Chotchkies and then two more after the death of my sister-in-law. I know they were given with good intentions but damn!

Ugly and creepy shit!

Perhaps the saint-doll will exorcise my scary frog-pond? I'm willing to give it a go - I'd be happy to take the little fella on a bit of a tourist trip with some happy-snaps to show for it.

hee! It might be groovy... let's see if anyone else is interested in ooky-sitting for fun and no profit.

Where are you, ninazer0? (not exact address, just area)

Australia. Fancy a picture of ooky in front of the Opera House?

Arse-hat - those angel things are scary. What did you do with them?

Hey, I'll take saintboy out for a day in New York. I'm sure we can get some good pix of him.

taz, your Saint Boy Story reminds me, I worked with a woman who's Aunt gave her an elaborate, 3 1/2 foot high Infant of Prague statue for a wedding gift. She kept it in the closet, but brought it in to work for show and tell. It was AMAZING. It was suppose to be a fertility thing, I think. I don't know if The Infant Of Prague maybe had to actually watch to bless the marriage or what, though, because they had no children.

I'll take Ooky Boy here, only if I can have him mounted on my car as a hood ornament for a month or so.

Count me in for the Travels of Ooky Boy. He really is creepy. If you can get him to me soon, he can experience Galiano, Vancouver, a farm on the Sunshine Coast, and Birmingham. (How big is he? Would I be able to fit him in my luggage without damaging his precious-wecious self?)

Maybe we should start a Metachat Ooky Saintboy mailshare

I do NOT want that creepy thing in my house! I can totally see why your friend was conflicted -- he looks like he has a soul. An evil, EVIL soul. And he will eat yours if you don't do everything he says, niiiiice and easy now.

*shudders*

Yeah, the creep factor is strong in that thing. He's not coming to my house either unless I can feed him to the dogs.

Check and see if he says made in China or such - that may help remove the creepy.

It's a known fact that Cheap knock-offs don't have the power of authentic native saint/troll/dolls.

I think he's related to Chucky.

Oh. Oh my.

That was definitely worse than I was imagining.

If that was in my house I think I'd take it out and BURN it.