Buying rosaries from a botanica?

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So I’m getting my child baptized soon and wanted to give gifts for the godmother/godfather. There is a nearby botanica that sells religious items and I bought a rosary from them as something unique. When I went in I got weird vibes as the place was like a house instead of a store and the woman in the back had one regular eye and one eye that was white like it had glaucoma or something ? I asked to buy a rosary so she directed me to the front to purchase it from this guy. After viewing a few I found one that was metal. After going home and looking up what a botanica is I’m ultra paranoiad, scared and can’t sleep. I think I keep hearing things but I don’t know. Am I just being paranoid? I was thinking of leaving it at a church so the priest or someone who finds it would know what to do with it ornwould want to keep it. What should I do?
 
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I would if I wanted to keep it but at this point I don’t want it and I wouldent want to not dispose of it properly. Plus do all priests bless rosaries? Even if they came from a botanica?
 
That rosary has a bar code tag on a sticker and it likely came that way from a supplier. The same rosary is probably sold in Catholic stores elsewhere. A blessing will remove any ill effects, if even present.
 
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When I went in I got weird vibes as the place was like a house instead of a store and the woman in the back had one regular eye and one eye that was white like it had glaucoma or something ?
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The lady has an eye disease or a medical condition. I have no idea why a person with an illness or disability would give you “weird vibes”. I’m sure she would much prefer to have two good eyes, also that whatever she has is not contagious, so please stop with the prejudice against the disabled.
I’ve read some kind of article how some rosaries were cursed and needed to be exorcised?
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The article you posted has already been discussed and debunked on a number of past threads. Those rosaries in question are simply plastic rosaries, widely available from some supplier, that have a design and some mold marks on the plastic crucifix. There is nothing “Satanic” about them and they are often handed out for free in the USA at churches. I have one myself that I got from a religious sister who handed them out to our prayer group. I had it blessed and I keep it in my car as an emergency rosary for when I forget to bring my regular more durable rosary. I pray on it all the time, including yesterday, and I have been doing so for months and it’s fine.

Please stop being superstitious. There is nothing wrong with the rosary you bought. You can have it blessed and use it. If you still don’t want it, then I suggest you simply donate it to a local church. You can leave it on the table or rack of books and rosaries that many churches have, maybe put a note “Free to whoever wants this” on it.
 
Hi there.

I’m assuming that you don’t want to go back inside the botanica, so I recommend just leaving it outside their front door. Although it’s not blessed, you might want to wrap the Rosary beads in something, so that they’re not touching the floor directly. Or you can hang it on the store’s door handle. If you don’t want to even go that close, you can throw it in the river (I don’t usually recommend littering, but this is something different.)

Don’t be scared, though. You have not given evil spirits any permission to enter your life. Remain strong in faith and prayer and you will be blessed.

God bless you and your child 🙂
 
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I’m assuming that you don’t want to go back inside the botanica, so I recommend just leaving it outside their front door. Although it’s not blessed, you might want to wrap the Rosary beads in something, so that they’re not touching the floor directly. Or you can hang it on the store’s door handle. If you don’t want to even go that close, you can throw it in the river (I don’t usually recommend littering, but this is something different.)
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This is superstition. Catholics do not believe in such stuff.

The rosary is not an occult object. The shop is someone’s shop, not a portal to the underworld.
 
So, an elderly lady with a physical condition is trying to support herself with a small shop run out of a home, and that makes a perfectly normal rosary scare you?
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Hi there.

I understand where you’re coming from. This is advice for a person who wants to respectfully dispose of a Rosary. The OP expressed fear, so they might not want to go back into the store. They are under no obligation to use a Rosary that they feel uncomfortable with.
 
If one does not wish to return the rosary to the store, then one can donate the rosary, leave it at Church for someone else to take for free, or even give it to their priest who will I’m sure be able to donate it somewhere.
 
I see the Corpus is missing from the cross. You can see the outline of the glue in the pictures you posted. So it begs to ask, why did you buy it like that in the first place? That alone would have put me off. It would have been the perfect opportunity to bow out of the whole experience gracefully; saying something like “sorry, this wasn’t exactly what I was looking for, but thank you so much for your time.”
 
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I see the Corpus is missing from the cross. You can see the outline of the glue in the pictures you posted.
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That is not a glue outline. The cross is a crucifix that simply has the silhouette of Jesus cut into it.

edited to add, you can see these types of crosses online if you google Carved Hematite Crucifix, they’re common and cheap
 
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I would say a botanica is not a good place to purchase a rosary, but you didn’t know that before. You could probably have it blessed by a priest, as others have said, or get rid of it and purchase another from a Catholic source.

Interestingly, here is an old CAF thread on the same topic: Am I allowed to buy from a Botanica?
 
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