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Valued Member
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I recently went to a funeral where I was introduced to the HELL NOTE.
Although it is not real currency, it is printed like banknotes in all types of denominations and sizes. Some pictures on them are truly remarkable and include interesting topics. Has anyone seen or collect them?
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Edited by chrycopaul
07/17/2007 6:31 pm
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 United States
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I don't think I'd pay money for one but I'd like to get one just for a strange thing to have in my collection. I'm not superstitious so no worries. I've walked on a broken mirror under a ladder while holding a black cat in the rain and then I found a quarter.  |
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United States
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HERE IS MINE. Image Insert: Image Insert: Edited by scoutjim99
07/17/2007 7:49 pm
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Valued Member
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As with some things they can be looked at as a novelty by some but to others they represent a respect to the dead in the afterlife.
I have some still at home and as for having any bad luck I don;t think so. Unless you consider falling off the ladder while painting the ceiling and spilling paint onto the floor and into the cats milk dish and the cat going to the vets to get its stomach pumped and getting a bill for $300.00?
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G'day, my local Asian Emporium has these, in various denominations - all large, in bundles of about 50 notes for a few dollars. They are also called "Joss Paper". I believe that they are burned, as a means of transmitting the notes, or perhaps their value, to loved ones who have "passed to the other side". I have seen other items, mage of paper or card: TV sets, DVD players, packets of cigarettes, clothing, gold bars - the list is almost endless. I have also seen Hell Credit Cards and Hell Cheque Books, although I can't imagine why I'd trust any of my rellies with such things, living or dead.
I'm not saying that this is the only occasion when they are utilized, but there is a "Festival of Hungry Ghosts", when one makes offerings for all of one's departed rellies. So, you'd want to buy these notes by the bundle: "here's one for Great-Grandma', and another one for Great-Grandpa', and one for Uncle Billy ...".
The Festival is on the 14th night of the seventh lunar month. In 2007, that will be August 26.
The use of the word "Hell" by Chinese is, I think, different from what an English-speaking person might expect. The Chinese use "Hell" to mean afterlife, in a neutral sense, rather than our negative concept of eternal damnation.
Peter in Darwin, Australia
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two of my favorite. One with the late Kennedy and the other similar to a US banknote Image:  hellone.jpg55.84 KB Image: helltwo.jpg33.84 KB |
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I see these all the time at the Chinese shops around here. (and there are a lot of them). I never really paid much attention to them before.
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Posted 07/17/2007 6:35 pm
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