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Magical Lust Stone
This is a magical Javanese stone, which can be used to arouse your target from a distance. The magical Stone of Lust can be used by both men and women to influence their target, so that to cause them to lustfully chase you!
The power of the stone will make your target go sexually crazy over you, as it influences them to be sexually intimate with you.
The magical stone vibrates on its own accord when steeped into any kind of liquid. The same affect will occur as your target will feel a vibration erotic-like sensation in his/her genital area.
Although, you can use this item from a distance the person you are targeting must be in close proximity.
It is a very simple magical item to use, as you are only required to recite a short mantra to activate its power.
The following virtues of this item presented below:
Sexually arouse your target from a distance
Make your target go sexually crazy over you and become passionate towards you
This magical stone vibrates when immersed into any kind of liquids
Easy to use Javanese magical stone
Get yours here for only $192.17!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 25, 2012 -
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Category: Frauds, Cons and Scams, New Age, Paranormal, Sexuality, Superstition
The See-through Flesh of Heavenly Virgins
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 09, 2012 -
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Category: Frauds, Cons and Scams, Religion, Sexuality, Skin and Skin Conditions
The Prayer Duel
LAYDEEZ 'N' GENNELMEN! On yer left, John Alexander Dowie, weighing in at 162 pounds with robes!
On yer right, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, a trim 158 with turban wrapped tight!
Watch them in a prayer duel to the death! Mixed Martial Arts ain't got nuthin' on them!
As Dowie was an enemy of all religions but his own, it is not surprising he had no use for Islam — although the extent of his animus remains a point of controversy among various Muslim sects even today.
In the summer of 1903, this brought a well-publicized challenge to an Islamic prayer duel to the death, or Mubahila, from the Indian subcontinent: "Whether the God of Muhammadans or the God of Dowie is the true God, may be settled...he should choose me as his opponent and pray to God that of us two, whoever is the liar may perish first.... I am an old man of 66 years and Dr. Dowie is eleven years younger; therefore on grounds of age he need not have any apprehension.... If the self-made deity of Dr. Dowie has any power, he shall certainly allow him to appear against me and procure my destruction in his lifetime." Dowie's Punjabi challenger, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, was a remarkably well-matched opponent: he too had founded his own sect, Ahmadiyya, and believed himself a reincarnated prophet — in his case, Hazrat Eisa Ibne Maryam (a.k.a. Jesus Christ).
Whether the Almighty took any interest in their contest, its rules leave no doubt about the winner: in short order Dowie was deposed (amid rumors of sexual and financial malfeasance); suffered a stroke; and, in 1907, died — a year before Ahmad.
Posted By: Paul - Thu May 24, 2012 -
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Category: Death, Eccentrics, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Religion, 1900s
Really, You Shouldn’t Have
I walk past this boulder, located on the grounds of some State Offices near the Rhode Island capitol, about once a week. This week, I happened to notice it featured a plaque. Here's what the plaque says (click to enlarge):
Gift to the future? Where? Is it the boulder? But the boulder is pretty much just a bland frame for the plaque!
This appears to be nothing more than an egocentric tribute to the people involved, a way to memorialize themselves. Or am I missing something?
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 04, 2012 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Government, Statues, Monuments and Memorials, 1990s
The Vacuum Cap
Original ad here. (Scroll down.)
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 16, 2012 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Frauds, Cons and Scams, 1900s, Hair and Hairstyling
Dr. Olgierd Lindan’s Collection of Unusual Medical Devices & Antique Electronics
WU-vies will find much to amuse them on this page of weird medical gadgets.
One of the prime charlatans whose stuff is on display was a fellow named Dr. Albert Abrams pictured to the right.
You can read a book he wrote here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Nov 05, 2011 -
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Category: Body, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Medicine, Body Fluids, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, Nineteenth Century
Johnson Smith Catalog Item #10
Yeah, right, make money renting out your reptiles to store-owners.
From the 1950 catalog.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 14, 2011 -
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Category: Animals, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Johnson Smith Catalog, Products, 1950s
Confidential File: Medical Quacks
Your weekend expose viewing.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jul 29, 2011 -
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Category: Frauds, Cons and Scams, Documentaries, 1950s, Diseases
Violet Healing Rays
Original ad here. (Scroll down a bit.)
Read the history here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 23, 2011 -
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Category: Frauds, Cons and Scams, Health, Technology, Appliances, 1910s
Quis Fabricariet Ipsos Fabricares?
Dresden art dealer Petra Kujau was found guilty of forgery this week, after passing off three hundred paintings she had come into possession of as the work of her "great-uncle", Konrad Kujau. The 51 year-old singer turned dealer would add a facsimile of Kujau senior's signature to the paintings, then sell them on at a greatly inflated price.So far, so mundane. What makes this story particularly WU worthy is that Konrad Kujau was himself a forger, and his self-proclaimed niece was selling her forgeries as "genuine forgeries" created by her famous uncle Konrad. It all begins to make sense once you learn that Mr. Kujau did not limit himself to forging paintings, but was also known to forge the odd diary or two, specifically those of one Adolf Hitler. Although ultimately unsuccessful, his forgeries of the Hitler Diaries were good enough to fool not just many newspapers and magazines, but also at least two historians, and the unmasking of the hoax caused many a journalist and editor a red face. But the notoriety afforded Konrad Kujau as the man "behind" the Hitler diaries meant that he could command considerable sums for something a small as Hitler's signature on a card, and original "Kujau forgeries" soon became enough of a collector's item that he could make a comfortable living from them after his release from prison in 1987.
After his death in September 2000 his business was carried on by Petra Kujau, who evidently decided that one forgery was as good as another, and began importing cheap copies of famous works from Asian suppliers and passing them off as eminently more desirable "Kujau forgeries", which in one sense they were. But soon the sheer volume of Kujau forgeries on the market aroused the suspicions of at least one collector, who tipped off the police to the double forgery.
Which just leaves the question, just where can I get hold of a genuine Petra Kujau double forgery? Now that's something I'd like to own!
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Sun Sep 12, 2010 -
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Category: Art, Business, Crime, Frauds, Cons and Scams, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators
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