{"product_id":"incarnate-the-exorcism-case","title":"Incarnate: The Exorcism Case","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c!-- obsidian --\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003c!-- obsidian --\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eEverything the Archbishop carried\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn exorcist's secrets. A doctor's testimony. A boy's prophecy. One case.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDubuque, Iowa. The 11th of July, 1969. A car stops outside a house on the edge of town and a man in black gets out carrying a small case. He has been carrying it for years, to hospital beds and back bedrooms, and he has never once opened it for anything like this. Inside the house a twelve-year-old boy is waiting for him. What the boy said that night is in the file. What it cost the men who heard it took twenty-seven years to arrive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the Archbishop's case. \u003cstrong\u003eWith it, everything you need to perform \u003cem\u003eIncarnate\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat night the Archbishop took the case down himself. A sick call set, the trade called it: crucifix, candles, holy water, and the vessels for the anointing, each in its own velvet cut, everything the last rites require in a case that fits in one hand. It had gone with him to hospital beds and back bedrooms for years and come home again every time. It was made for the dying. The boy in the house was not dying at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis one is \u003cem\u003eThe Hilary\u003c\/em\u003e, made in the 1930s by Laverty \u0026amp; Sons of Leeds, church furnishers, with IHS in gilt on the lid and the maker's label still inside it. Genuine, and complete: the standing crucifix with a skull and crossbones at its foot, the pair of candlesticks, the holy water bottle, the porcelain jug and cup, the small crucifix for the hand. It shuts, it latches, and it goes with you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlongside the case, the rest of the exorcism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt its heart lies \u003cstrong\u003ea copy of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/darkartifice.com\/products\/incarnate\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIncarnate\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, the infamous performance artefact from Dark Artifice: the sealed dossier of correspondence, drawings, audio transcripts, and the levitation photographs that made the original investigators put down their cameras.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeside it, Laudanum House's \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/laudanumhouse.com\/products\/incarnate-the-doctors-photographs\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Doctor's Photographs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e: the parallel record kept by the medical doctor who witnessed the rite and did not survive it. Vintage slides, stamped archival documents, blank prescription papers from Dr. Whitmore's desk, and the newspaper clipping that reports how he met his end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeneath them, the books. A Latin \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRituale Romanum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e, the small black one a priest keeps in his pocket, with the purple ribbon left in at the rite of exorcism. And the \u003cstrong\u003eboy's own Bible\u003c\/strong\u003e, drawn over in pencil: something or someone trapped in Hell, the flames around it coloured in by hand, on the page where Satan is bound for a thousand years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOpen the case on the table in front of your audience and set it out, piece by piece, exactly as he did. Candles. Crucifix. Water. Only then bring out the file. At the end, put the crucifix and the candlesticks back in their velvet and shut the lid. This is not a display. It is a kit, and it has a job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese details do not merely support the performance. They complete it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe collection\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA copy of \u003cstrong\u003eIncarnate\u003c\/strong\u003e (Dark Artifice), long sold out and difficult to acquire: the complete case file of correspondence, drawings, audio transcripts, and levitation photographs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Doctor's Photographs\u003c\/strong\u003e (Laudanum House): vintage 1960s slides bearing colourised photographs from the case file, stamped archival documentation, the newspaper clipping reporting Dr. Whitmore's death, and blank prescription papers from his desk. The perfect companion piece to Incarnate.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Latin edition of the \u003cstrong\u003eRituale Romanum\u003c\/strong\u003e, containing the solemn rite of exorcism as authorised by the Catholic Church, with its ribbon at the rite.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eboy's personal Bible\u003c\/strong\u003e, annotated in pencil and coloured crayon across the Book of Revelation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA genuine 1930s \u003cstrong\u003esick call set, \"The Hilary\", by Laverty \u0026amp; Sons Ltd of Leeds\u003c\/strong\u003e: the fitted black case with IHS in gilt on the lid, a standing crucifix with a skull and crossbones at the foot, two brass candlesticks with candles, a glass holy water bottle with its original label, a porcelain jug and cup with IHS in gilt, and a small hand crucifix. Every piece packs into its own place.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition is as photographed: a working case that has done its ninety years, unrestored.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eClosing\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not a collection of props. It is a complete exorcism kit, and at its centre is the case he carried. In performance, you do not just tell the story of Incarnate. You carry the case through the door, and everyone in the room watches you open it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDo you believe in prophecy? You will.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cem\u003eIncarnate: The Exorcism Archive is released with the full permission of Bobby Hasbun from \u003ca rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Dark Artifice\" href=\"https:\/\/darkartifice.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDark Artifice\u003c\/a\u003e. Some images redacted on request of Dark Artifice.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Laudanum House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58588360507656,"sku":"LHBZ-00042","price":850.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0903\/6457\/6008\/files\/exorcism-case-4-1.jpg?v=1788285388","url":"https:\/\/laudanumhouse.com\/products\/incarnate-the-exorcism-case","provider":"Laudanum House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}