So the other day I was wandering through Bed Bath and Buy More Stuff when my eye hit upon...finger puppets? For Passover? Depicting the plagues? What the -?
Do people want their children to play with depictions of the plagues? Boils? Locusts? Darkness? Blood? And yes, the death of the first born?
Is this weird and creepy, or am I really ignorant of other's cultural practices? Who buys this?
ETA: Ok, wow. Who knew? Sadly, BB&BMS does not sell them online. My store must be lucky. You can buy them at the Jewish Store for $14, OyToys (great name) for $17.99, or, heck, a bunch of places for prices ranging from $14-$20. You can also buy a box set of toys for each of the plagues from Amazon, though why the first born plague is a nine piece puzzle is not clear. I, uh, had no idea. Although my catholic lenten sacrifice was to stop buying stuff, I have an idea for a giveaway. I'll happily mail one set of puppets to the first person who e-mails me (address at right). A better contest (from someone who receives more comments than I do) would be tell me what plagues you, or something along those lines, but I'll tell you, ever since I was a child, as a first born, the first-born thing - the whole reason for "pass-over" - has really, really scared me. I stay away from plagues.
7 comments:
That is most definitely one of the strangest, most macabre things I have ever seen.
No link???
'cause I need these for my seder.
OMG, I BUY THIS. This is fucking awesome!! I'm not sure about passover per se, but for me? Today? Hell yes.
I WANT THEM! I'm sure someone beat me to it, but email coming.
this is soooooo amazingly scary! I seriously love it.
Probably teenagers buy them?
Yay! Now my passover will be truly complete.
(And I'm pretty sure that it was only the first born *sons* that counted for these purposes. A fact that I, the first born child, comforted myself with many, many times)
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