Law and Magic Blog

For Sale: Dolls With a Past

From Vice, a piece on the increasing popularity of those "haunted" items--specifically, haunted dolls. Sellers sell, and buyers buy, these objects (on eBay, or on some other platform) and the fllip is that the toys are "possessed" by some paranormal spirit or entity. The seller affirms in some way that she or he has had some sort of experience with the doll, and the buyer purchases the doll based on the seller's description of that experience. Now, note that the buyer is actually purchasing the doll, and note the seller's experience, or any expectation of a future experience. One person the reporter spoke to noted that spirits have "free will." That's not so comforting. Do the sellers consider that maybe these entities decide that once a doll is sold, they don't want to make the trip to the new purchaser? Maybe they just want to stay with the sellers? After all, the entities aren't parties to the sale. They didn't agree. Someone call Wolfram and Hart!

 

Clean Sweep: Alabama Shop Owner's Broom Takes a Stand

A news report from Alabama about a broom that stands up for itself. The owner of a consignment shop says she thinks there's a little "Holy Spirit" operating, and she's keeping this cleaning implement. Yes, but...aren't brooms associated with evil and witchcraft? Never mind. This seems to be a nice broom, a friendly broom, a Harry Potter, Samantha Stevens type of broom. I say it is, and I say good for her for not discriminating against this broom. It will undoubtedly help her clean up in in future.