Behold - the Mouth of Truth!
18/02/09 05:51 Filed in: Disturbing
Mascots
This is a novelty attraction in the kid's playroom at
Gold Coast resort in HK. I believe 'Bocca Della
Verita' translates as 'Mouth of Truth' in Italian.
You put your hand in his mouth/slot and the imposing
Greco-Roman device reads your palm, apparently
leaving fiery disfiguring scars along your fortune
lines. I can't imagine any sane child putting their
hand inside this thing to be honest, or any adult for
that matter. It wasn't plugged in at the time, so I
couldn't try it out. But what does it actually say
when it is? Does it bellow - in a Godlike basso voice
- dire predictions that will ruin your childhood and
adolescence, like "you shall remain a virgin until
your thirty-fifth year!" or "yours was an accidental
birth!" Or perhaps something more in line with Greek
tragedies, like "You shall murder your father in a
jealous rage and marry your stepmother! So says the
Bocca Della VERITA!"
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