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Tulpa's Death Worn Skull of Sidon Crucifix - an 1888 LiDiex Suite Find - The Voodoo Estate
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Tulpa's Death Worn Skull of Sidon Crucifix
an 1888 LiDiex Suite Find~!~
Nearly twenty-four and a half years ago we were called to do an estate that had been closed up for seventeen years!The Voodoo Estate!
This type of call usually gets us excited as they are a treasure trove. Located here in Florida, there was no electricity or running water so we rigged our own lighting and in we went. If you have ever seen the Adams Family you will have some idea as to what we were greeted with! Then the attorney handling the liquidation gave us some background. The estate had belonged to an alleged powerful Voodoo Priestess/JooJoo Exorcist, grand daughter of a Marie Laveau, and favored daughter of a Marie Glapion.
These names meant nothing to us, but the late night talk of Voodoo and exorcism in the old mansion was enough to make us decide to spend the night in a hotel and return in the morning to assess the estate. The rest is history.
Our research has shown that this woman was what she claimed and was indeed descended from a long line of well known Vodoun family originating in New Orleans in the early 1800's.
We were pretty unnerved by this until we discovered they were also devout Catholics! Although I have to admit this was unlike any Catholic home we have ever been in and some of the items found inside were a little more than unnerving. There was no feeling of dread or unwelcome in the mansion, however there was quite a bit of contraband and other items we can or will not sell here.
This is one of a few pieces from this estate we will be listing this week, so check our other listings!
We will, upon the new guardian's request, issue a named Letter of Authenticity with each lot from this estate, complying with the terms set forth to us by the estate's attorney.
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Some Back Story
There are some pretty fantastic tales of animating inanimate objects, most notably a number of articulated skulls and puppets using specific minerals, potions, elixirs and reptiles.
She describes this LiDiex; "in excess of six feet of sinewy muscle, deceptively strong, easily matching two of his size in their grappling."
"extensively, shaved, tattooed and pierced"
"Shown to be capable of high magic without devices."
Both their journals claim his ability to heal wounds, shape shift, travel through time, space, telepath and create life with the power of his thought.
It is this LiDiex who is attributed with making her introduction to Alexandra David Neel & his journals tell of numerous meetings & short adventures with Neel. Claiming at the age of twenty four to have met Neel for the second time in the company of Prince Sidkeong of Sikkim and of being her teacher of the Tibetan language having already spent six years with the Great Hermit as apprentice.
Much is already written on these subjects, so there is no need to elaborate here in this already overly long listing, but we wholeheartedly recommend a cursory search for some very interesting reading.
He also claims to have been "expelled by the Great Hermit for divulging Tulpa technique to the mystic whore."
Both their journals claim him to have mastered this at an early age, "born with it" as they note. Claiming, "by my thought they form as mist, taking solid form usually as something that appears playful. Knowing their ways, grooming them for their rebellious phase, it is then they mature and can be used for deadly purpose in exchange for their freedom of my will. This allows them to develop into a living entity of it's own, freethinking and free willed, always capable of performing minor feats of magic.
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Neel notes from her book, Magic and Mystery in Tibet, "the practice is considered as fraught with danger for every one who has not reached a high mental and spiritual degree of enlightenment and is not fully aware of the nature of the psychic forces at work in the process.
Once the tulpa is endowed with enough vitality to be capable of playing the part of a real being, it tends to free itself from its maker's control. This, say Tibetan occultists, happens nearly mechanically, just as the child, when his body is completed and able to live apart, leaves its mother's womb. Sometimes the phantom becomes a rebellious son and one hears of uncanny struggles that have taken place between magicians and their creatures, the former being severely hurt or even killed by the latter.
Tibetan magicians also relate cases in which the tulpa is sent to fulfill a mission, but does not come back and pursues its peregrinations as a half-conscious, dangerously mischievous puppet. The same thing, it is said, may happen when the maker of the tulpa dies before having dissolved it. Yet as a rule the phantom either disappears suddenly at the death of the magician or gradually vanishes like a body that perishes for want of food. On the other hand, some tulpas are expressly intended to survive their creator and are specially formed for that purpose."
And it is here that this pertains to this crucifix.
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The Tulpa
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The Skull of Sidon
The timeline of their journals have her and her entourage converging upon France in 1925 to view the Holy Relics. Neel returns to Paris and the 1888 LiDiex, accompanied by his young Tulpa companion wait for them in Lourdes. It is here they meet once again and the young Tulpa is sent forth to the suspected estate of Templar Godfrey de Bouillon in Lourdes, whom they had been tracking for many years, accusing him of bing a vampire who had committed offenses against them.
There were a number of Templar, Vampire attributed items in her collection that were gathered during her life long quest to locate Templar Godfrey de Bouillon who she long suspected of being a vampire. Allegedly this Tulpa returned from his mission, confirming their suspicions, it is him and he is a vampire.They write of mounting a 3 am assault upon this estate, but he has already fled France for the United States and it will be 1958 before she finds his trail again.
Looting the estate, it is the numerous Crucifix and other religious icons bearing the Skull of Sidon that capture the interest of this Tulpa. The LiDiex journals state; "rightly convinced he is of the same energy of the legend he has taken these talisman to link to this reality, meditating upon it to dispel the mist that is still part of his being."
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Apparently, the skull and cross bones became a mandala for this creature to mediate upon and in doing so, helped solidify his form. The LiDiex journals tell us "his second son" as this Tulpa is referred to, claimed this crucifix as his own and is quoted as saying, "spelled to my essence to prolong life, beauty and reason. It bears the gift of protection from sorcery, poison and illness."
Their journals go on to tell us, "This is not a creature to call before you unprepared as it has a murderous rage. But if one meditates upon the manifestation of the desired outcome it will put this into it's mind as it's own thought to be acted upon."
In a 1962 dated ledger entry it is stated, "The crucifix was recovered from his disintegrating mist" and further down on the badly damaged page, "Death worn always reeks of the living imprint." A statement we have seen repeated and associated with death worn items.
Real or imagined, we understand why these people were as feared & respected as they were.
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The Crucifix
Examination reveals a well worn antique European pectoral crucifix measuring approximately 3" (with bale) x 1 3/8" x 5/16" and weighs 14.7 grams. It has a nickel body with ebony wood inserts and a bronze split ring bale. The left hand spike is missing and the corpus remains solidly affixed to the cross.
Marked "REAL EBONY" on the back with no other marks.
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In an article published by The Historian Magazine on July 22nd., 2025 titled
The Skull of Sidon and the Lady Maraclea by Caitlin Johnston
The 'Her' in Heresy
For as long as we have been documenting the human condition, we have also been documenting the disrespect of women in history, deifying women now who were desecrated then - Jeanne d'Arc, now seen as a historic heroine, even when her own time saw her labeled as a heretic and a criminal. Women have been used as commodities in storytelling for just as long, the famous names in well-known myths who furthered the story of the male hero at the cost of their own suffering.
One such story is that of the Skull of Sidon. It is a tale that has been told in a thousand different forms, each one slightly different than the last, of a nameless, silenced woman who was used against her knowledge and will in a fictional story that was then used as evidence of heresy and sin in the trials of the Knights Templar.
A Woman, Unnamed
The documentation of the story dates back to the 12th. century, but the version that is most known is the version written by Walter Map, a medieval writer who was a courtier of King Henry II of England, and the eventual Archdeacon of Oxford. Map's version of the tale is as follows;
“A great lady of Maraclea was loved by a Templar, a Lord of Sidon; but she died in her youth, and on the night of her burial, this wicked lover crept to the grave, dug up her body and violated it. Then a voice from the void bade him return in nine months time for he would find a son. He obeyed the injunction and at the appointed time he opened the grave again and found a head on the leg bones of the skeleton (skull and crossbones). The same voice bade him guard it well, for it would be the giver of all good things, and so he carried it away with him. It became his protecting genius, and he was able to defeat his enemies by merely showing them the magic head. In due course, it passed into the possession of the Order.”
This tale was retold during the trials of the Knights Templar by an apostolic notary named Antonio Sicci, as 'evidence' of the accusations levied against the Templar Order - accusations of heresy, blasphemy and witchcraft, and the worship of some head-like artifact.
In The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail (Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, 1982), it is suggested that the inquisitors of the time would have realized that the woman, the young Lady of Maraclea, may have likely been of Armenian heritage, which could link back to the Armenian Church and it's Paulician sects, who practiced Catharism. The church believed that those who practiced Catharism also practiced black magic and necromancy, which is why the church had made such an effort to wipe Catharism from history, and which is why the story was deemed probable, and guilty.
Cathars, Expelled.
A Deity Defiled
Some who have read and studied this story have deemed it a possible origin of the 'skull and crossbones' insignia, which has it's own defined roots in the history of the Knights Templar. Others who have studied this story may notice similarities with other stories in myth and legend - such as the story of Medusa, who's severed head was used as a weapon by Perseus, and then the goddess Athena. Some variations of the story name the Lady of Maraclea as "Yse", perhaps a variation of Isis - the Egyptian goddess who restored the body of her murdered husband, Osiris, to conceive their son, Horus.
Although the story is evidently fictional, it is steeped in an undeniable and historical truth - the use of women as commodities, and the continued persecution of many based on religious belief and practice. To the modern reader, it is clear that this story is hysterical and scientifically impossible, but to the church and the inquisitors seeking to persecute the Templars for their supposed heresy, it was easy to use this tale as evidence of witchcraft - not because of the actions of the defiler, but the gender and heritage of the defiled.
~!~And that concludes this write-up for what we feel is a remarkable crucifix with extraordinary provenance that is much nicer than the photographs are able to depict.
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Many of our clients, after receiving items from this estate have reported dream contacts and other unexplained phenomenon.
Unusual, authentic Voodoo Priestess Estate piece & at a bargain price!
This is truly a rare opportunity to own anything with attributes to this estate. The majority of this estate is now gone. Most of what we had left, and it was considerable, has been split up and sold to a couple of private, foreign collector practitioners and will never be available to the public again. We made the decision to do this as we have had some pretty strange visits from even stranger individuals and there have been enough unexplained phenomenon going on in the warehouse where her things were kept that many of our employees refused to go in there.
The items offered here are some of those remaining that will be offered to the public.
Nice addition to any collection, altar, wardrobe or decor, displays really well.
Really doesn't get any better than this.
There are 2 photos below to tell the rest of this tale.
Buyer to pay $0.00 for Insured Ground Shipping with Tracking, handling and lagniappe.
Rest assured your item will be carefully packed to withstand the onslaught of the most deranged of parcel carriers.
