Creed's Corner: A Collection of the Morbid, Mysterious, and Mrandom

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The bone chandelier at Prague Cathedral:



Boru

[Chas]

The bone chandelier at Prague Cathedral:

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Boru

Gee, that's not creepy.

[Nope]

What is the story behind the bone chandelier?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

There are churches and cathedrals all over Europe with ossuary construction. This one was the result of a chapel being built in a cemetery that was used for plague victims. The graves were unearthed during construction of the chapel, and the bones were used in decorating much of the chapel.

Boru

[Darkstar]

There are churches and cathedrals all over Europe with ossuary construction. This one was the result of a chapel being built in a cemetery that was used for plague victims. The graves were unearthed during construction of the chapel, and the bones were used in decorating much of the chapel.

Boru

"Hey, I've got a brilliant idea! We've got a big graveyard out back, and I'm out of metal, so how about we just dig up the bodies and make the rest of our stuff out of dead people?"

Not the first idea I would have come up with. The croc skull is cool, but using human parts, and so many of them... makes it look like some kind of death cult, or maybe a serial killer hideout.

[Creed of Heresy]

There are churches and cathedrals all over Europe with ossuary construction. This one was the result of a chapel being built in a cemetery that was used for plague victims. The graves were unearthed during construction of the chapel, and the bones were used in decorating much of the chapel.

Boru

"Hey, I've got a brilliant idea! We've got a big graveyard out back, and I'm out of metal, so how about we just dig up the bodies and make the rest of our stuff out of dead people?"

Not the first idea I would have come up with. The croc skull is cool, but using human parts, and so many of them... makes it look like some kind of death cult, or maybe a serial killer hideout.

Only so much your remains can do once your metabolic processes permanently cease.

They can sit in the ground, be burnt to ash, or used to make kickass decor.

I want my skeletal remains adorning some fucking hardcore metal piece like that chandelier! Fuck that rotting-in-the-ground bullshit, MAKE ME INTO A FUCKING CHANDELIER! Where the hell do I sign up?!

[Darkstar]

Only so much your remains can do once your metabolic processes permanently cease.

Well, hard to argue with that logic.

[Violet]

Not the first idea I would have come up with. The croc skull is cool, but using human parts, and so many of them... makes it look like some kind of death cult, or maybe a serial killer hideout.

Hey... I LIKE it. Don't you be dissing it~

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Only so much your remains can do once your metabolic processes permanently cease.

Well, hard to argue with that logic.

You've never been stabbed by an ivory knife. Not that there's arguing with barebone weapons in the first place, heh, why not?

* Violet joins the club.

[Alex K]

How would anyone think that Christianity is a death cult. Absurd!

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... makes it look like some kind of death cult,

[Lucanus]

Now, we people from the South of Italy come off as weirdly religious at times.

This is a place where paganism never left. It just acquired three new deities and a bunch of funny hats.

This here is the "Fontanelle" cemetery of Naples:

People come here and "adopt" skulls, praying to them to have their wishes fulfilled. Every day, they go to their "capuzzella" (Neapolitan for "little head"), they clean it, they talk to it, maybe build it a nice little case...

In fact, you can see that some skulls are actually placed in cases with inscriptions like "Per grazia ricevuta" ("For having received a favour").