![]() ![]() Upon hearing this Mannis offered to give the box back to the family. According to Havaleh’s granddaughter (but her entire family is dead right?) the box is a family heirloom, that was in their grandmother’s sewing room and had never been opened. Havaleh then escaped a Nazi concentration camp in 1939 and made her way to Spain somehow taking the box with her? The story is inconsistent in some cases, Havaleh bought the box in Spain, and in others it comes from Poland. ![]() ![]() The original owner a Jewish 103-year-old woman named Havaleh, whose entire family, parents, brothers, sisters, husband and two sons were killed. This would give it an origin of at least 1939, maybe even older. It supposedly leaves the host body once it has accomplished its goal, sometimes after being helped.Īccording to Mannis, he bought the box as part of an estate sale in 2002, and from the information he could gather about the Dybbuk Box it lead him to believe it had belonged to a survivor of the holocaust in Germany occupied Poland. According to the stories attached to this box, its history started much earlier.ĭybbuk (Yiddish: דיבוק, from the Hebrew verb דָּבַק dāḇaq meaning “adhere” or “cling”) is a malicious possessing spirit believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person. But this is not where this Urban Myth starts. He claimed it contained an evil spirit that ruined his life. Kevin Mannis coined the term ‘Dybbuk Box’ when selling his box on eBay in 2003. ![]()
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