My son was right! Scary!!

[lovesduckies]

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was that painting in the movie??? i'm not sure i could watch it. i might not be able to sleep. i really HATE that painting

eww that gave me the creeps!

 

[BeccaOH]

Couldn't help reading through this thread.

Check out Harvey triva here: http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Movies/Harvey-9435.html

A picture of the painting may be here midway down. Sort of a creepy rabbit.

http://www.cinemacom.com/james-stewart.html
Seems like they called Harvey a pooka or Celtic spirit creature. Whatever.

Poor lovesduckies

But if the painting were an original or a limited print, it could have value.

I added HARVEY to my Netflix list.

edited link

 

[MomtoSyd&Emma]

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now isnt that odd that its called a Pooka. My older sister had an "imaginary" friend that was called Pooka, because of that she named her first dog Pookie

 

[angelique_redhead]

I always liked that movie and the picture in it. In this case his eyes are red because he's an albino rabbit. That being said the rabbit is a pooka. In Celtic lore a pooka is a mischievous spirit and can assume different forms for practical jokes that most of us would not consider all that humorous. *HUGS* I'd love to have that picture but I can see where you might find it very unsettling.

: Angelique

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OHHHHH i think that's what its from!!!!!! everytime i ask my grandma about the painting, my mind kinda wonders off LOL so i forget but i remember something about harvey. is that why the rabbit looks so mean? LOL i usually call rabbits bunnies.. but that rabbit isn't cute so it's not a bunny

 

[Cindiloohoo]

http://webspace.webring.com/people/pj/jcsherwood1950/harveyfrankfay.htm

That link shows the painting in the original Harvey Broadway production in 1944. If that is the painting, it was on the set on Broadway, and likely worth some money. The rabbit does look creepy even from a not very detailed pic. Creepy, but still kinda cool.

 

[3goodeggs]

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One of the reasons that I won't purchase very many antiques is because people tend to leave a little bit of themselves behind, energy wise on items that they cared a lot about, such as a wedding ring, or a china set. It's sort of the same thing with a painting. Think of how much time that artist put into painting it. If that artist had any sort of mental issues (bi-polarism, schizophrenia, etc), then the energy being left behind on the item can be darker, or more frantic. Sometimes when a person dies, they don't want to give up an item that they were possessive of when they were alive. Artwork tends to be an item that gets "haunted" a lot. If the painting bothers you, just avoid it. As for reading people, I can spot a dark spirit from a mile away, lol. I'm not always so good at spotting the psychic vampires (it's really just a name used for people that drain the energy of other people) because often times they just look like everyone else. However once I'm around them, I KNOW. I've had the discomfort of being around several of them in my lifetime, and I tend to avoid them. I'm very sensitive psychically, and I can pick up on stuff that wouldn't bother the average person, and energy is one of those things.

By the way, that painting SOUNDS creepy. WHY exactly do your grandparents like it? I wouldn't want a giant rabbit on my wall. I suppose I'm more partial to my knock off Monet and Renoir's that are on my walls now, lol.

I would have liked to have had some of my grandparents things after they had died. They were light and joy and love--good memories. My mother steadfastly refused. (She is different-controlling and possessive) and now 20 years later, I realized that I do not want anything of theirs/hers because it is now dark and gloomy and unhappy.
How interesting. It wasn't the item that I needed or wanted, it was the energy.

Energy, can not be created or destroyed-but it can be changed.

I had lived in a house once that when before we moved, my neighbor said that we had 'fixed it.'
It now had a joyous energy and he didn't want that ruined by just anybody moving in.
I feel that way about the house we are in now. It had nothing, now it is a joyful house. I have had kids tell me this. I wonder how that happens. I thought it was just all the books and dogs and stuff.

 

[chicken_china_mom]

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One of the reasons that I won't purchase very many antiques is because people tend to leave a little bit of themselves behind, energy wise on items that they cared a lot about, such as a wedding ring, or a china set. It's sort of the same thing with a painting. Think of how much time that artist put into painting it. If that artist had any sort of mental issues (bi-polarism, schizophrenia, etc), then the energy being left behind on the item can be darker, or more frantic. Sometimes when a person dies, they don't want to give up an item that they were possessive of when they were alive. Artwork tends to be an item that gets "haunted" a lot. If the painting bothers you, just avoid it. As for reading people, I can spot a dark spirit from a mile away, lol. I'm not always so good at spotting the psychic vampires (it's really just a name used for people that drain the energy of other people) because often times they just look like everyone else. However once I'm around them, I KNOW. I've had the discomfort of being around several of them in my lifetime, and I tend to avoid them. I'm very sensitive psychically, and I can pick up on stuff that wouldn't bother the average person, and energy is one of those things.

By the way, that painting SOUNDS creepy. WHY exactly do your grandparents like it? I wouldn't want a giant rabbit on my wall. I suppose I'm more partial to my knock off Monet and Renoir's that are on my walls now, lol.

I would have liked to have had some of my grandparents things after they had died. They were light and joy and love--good memories. My mother steadfastly refused. (She is different-controlling and possessive) and now 20 years later, I realized that I do not want anything of theirs/hers because it is now dark and gloomy and unhappy.
How interesting. It wasn't the item that I needed or wanted, it was the energy.

Energy, can not be created or destroyed-but it can be changed.

I had lived in a house once that when before we moved, my neighbor said that we had 'fixed it.'
It now had a joyous energy and he didn't want that ruined by just anybody moving in.
I feel that way about the house we are in now. It had nothing, now it is a joyful house. I have had kids tell me this. I wonder how that happens. I thought it was just all the books and dogs and stuff.

Oh no, everywhere we go we leave behind a little piece of residual energy,whether it be good energy or bad, we still leave some behind. Picture this:

I'm walking through downtown Chicago with my boyfriend. I was 19 and in love, lol. He lived out of state and had come in to visit, and he really wanted to tour downtown. I figured ok, let's do it. So we took a walking tour and as we approached one of the bridges that goes over the Chicago river, I got this really bad feeling. I didn't like bridges to start with, and I did NOT want to cross that particular one. My bf told me I was being silly and irrational, and to hurry up. So I started over the bridge, but it's one of those creepy metal bridges that is mesh, so you can see the river under you as you are walking over it. I HATE that! So I kept looking down til I was safely on the other side of the bridge. At that point I finally looked up, and downtown Chicago was GONE. What I saw before me an open field, and everywhere I looked I saw dead bodies, or men dying. Soldiers and Indians. I could smell the death mixed with the heat of a hot summer day, and I gasped and blinked, and it was gone. The tall buildings were back, and the smell was gone. That never left me though. I didn't tell the bf what I had seen because he doesn't believe in anything of a psychic nature (there's a reason why we only lasted 3 years, lol), so I kept it to myself until I saw my mother, and then I told her. We did some research and discovered that a great battle had taken place where downtown Chicago is now, and some years later I learned about residual energy and psychic imprints, and I realized that what I had seen was in fact, a psychic imprint. I can only imagine the things that the people that work inside those buildings see and hear. But I've had incidents like that quite a bit over the years.

Another incident was this:

My friend likes to collect things that are haunted or cursed. I think she's nuts, she thinks it's cool. Whatever, I just know I wouldn't deliberately go out seeking cursed artifacts! Well, she calls me up one day babbling about the fact that she had just purchased a lock that dated back to probably the 1600's, and was suppose to have come from a pirate ship and was haunted. I was like ok.... So knowing the things I can see and hear she begs me to make the drive to her house to check it out. I was reluctant, figured I'd see it in due time as it was, but she was adamant, so I made the drive. She placed the lock in my hand and I was able to tell her that there was definitely something freaky about the lock. She was so happy to know that she hadn't "wasted" her money. Yeah, ok... So we spend the afternoon talking, playing with her dogs, etc. Don't see any of the supposed ghosts that were suppose to be haunting this lock. She lives in a ranch, so when you walk into her house you have to go up to get to the living room and kitchen, and down to get to the garage and backyard, if that makes sense. So we went downstairs after a few hours to take her dogs out in the yard for awhile, and so she could show me all the plans she had for fixing up the yard. So we're out there, and for some reason I looked up at her kitchen window, and I saw a BIG black figure walk past the kitchen window. My jaw about dropped. We were the only ones home, and that was a MAN I saw walking past! And so I became the first to actually see one of the pirates. She has glimpsed them from time to time since then. There was so much energy still wound up in that lock that after 400 years, it was still eminating from it! It was freaky. This same friend bought me an all seeing eye too. It came in a little red pouch and it was suppose to enhance psychic ability, but I got the strangest vibes off it the moment I first held it, and I quickly learned that bad things happen when I carry it with me. I haven't gotten rid of it yet, but it is hidden in the back of my nightstand drawer. I don't like the little thing. I don't know where it originally came from, but I do know that it gives me the heebie jeebies. Someone either put some weird mojo on it, or infused it with a large amount of negative energy. Yeah, my friend gives me some really interesting gifts from time to time, lol. It probably freaked her out, so she passed it along.

 

[lovesduckies]

kinda looks like that one but it's time times more freaky!!!!!!!!!!! the rabbit looks like it wants to chop you up and eat you for a snack! i will have to get a pic of it.. cuz it's creepier than all the ones i've found!!

 

[chicken_china_mom]

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Kind of like the creepy bunny from Donnie Darko? I can't watch that movie, the rabbit is just too freaky for me, and I love horror and darker movies, just not that one!

 

[lovesduckies]

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Kind of like the creepy bunny from Donnie Darko? I can't watch that movie, the rabbit is just too freaky for me, and I love horror and darker movies, just not that one!

ive never seen donny darko..