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Playing with their knob in public. Scandalous.

I was hoping for more from this thread.

That reminds me of a wooden box my grandma had. When you would slide the top open, a dragon swung out and pecked your hand. With a pin at the end of its nose for added fun. Ah, the good old days.

The "Useless Machine". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useless...

God, I love Italy.

Introvert.

I'm sorry, visuals no longer mean anything because A.I.

Looks better as a pair imo

I think you put the hand in warm water to make the knocking sound

That's... A very common kind of knocker? At least where I live you see them in plenty of buildings from the 19th/early 20th centuries?

That's a place that definitely has secret rooms.

Extraordinary!!! I love it!

Here's one from Bologna this morning, although not sure it qualifies as unsettling

You lift the hand, drop it, the brass ball bangs on the brass plate, you get a solid, audible knock without rapping your knuckles or damaging the head of your walking stick.

They’re all over France too.

They built the Vatican in Italy specifically to cement a cap on all these unsettling trapholes /s

#questionsIneverthoughtIwouldask

I would not be able to stop myself from knocking

Let's knock off the knob talk people it's after midnight 😂

Maybe?

Ha same

I had a friend whose dresser drawer pulls were all slightly different brass baby fists. Same deal.

Turns out, our visit to Italy 2 decades ago consisted of many such photographs. This was a cultural 'thing' of which we were not aware beforehand but have now been made aware to the extent that PTSD is considered likely.

Also, that's probably a door knocker, not a knob. I have never seen a Hand of Fatima knob. They are commonly knockers.

Please let yourself in through the ball scratching door

There are more?

It's like an inverted goatse

It’s giving Silent Hill 2

kinda Labyrinth-coded

@earational.bsky.social at least it's honest that it's a haunted house. you can't say that you weren't warned.

Yeah? I mean people dont use doorknocks much anymore due to electric doorbells being just better, but the doors that still have them have stuff like this.

Go to Venice and enjoy the ones that look like vampires

JFC 😬😳😥

how real knobs are done! 🤩

Why does it look like something from a nightmare?

with knights in shining… speedos?

Hmm… can’t open hand wide enough to completely grasp ball. Looks like one of my Dupuytrens hands

I feel like this would be significantly less creepy if the door itself didn’t have visible rivets. That makes the whole situation so much more unsettling. Also, how does the door knob actually work? Like is it just a handle, or does something turn?

Handle on this one in Liblijana is on the right side.