Dispatchist #64 - Dybbuk Box of Fun

This week we’re wrapping up our deep dive into various Ancient Israel-adjacent topics with a look at the demonology and monsterology of the time. Of course the standard take on this is “well, there isn’t much…” or maybe just a “we don’t know of much,” because the orthodox Jewish faith of the time tended away from the supernatural. So we’re picking up a lot of late medieval and early early modern stuff as well.  Hell news! You might be familiar with the somewhat urban legendy story of the haunted Dybbuk Box. There are a few new chapters of the story. Famous ghost hunter Zak Bagans picked up the cabinet for his haunted museum, in 2018, and opened it without incident, or at least without any incident that might have been worth making into a Netflix documentary. Rapper Post Malone, who we generally agree looks more like a hobbit than Zak Bagans does, touched the haunted box, and has since lived in interesting times. More about that story from KSNV News, from whom the image at right was lifted.