I first wrote about the New-Age Rosary hoax way back in 2011. Link to original blog posting: http://www.josephsciambra.com/2011/12/new-age-rosary-hoax.htmland, still, I receive many e-mails concerning my stand on this bizarre internet-urban legend. Just recently, I spoke with one of the chief distributors of Italian rosaries in the US. I asked him about it. He said the factory from which these inexpensive rosaries originated is one of the oldest rosary makers in the world. In fact, they also produce most of the rosaries sold in Italy and many of those that are imported all around the world. The mold in question, with the supposed serpent in the background, is at least 40 years old. Hapless people write to me that they have been given these rosaries, and have destroyed or buried them because they believe that they are cursed. How very sad. St. Teresa of Avila put it best when she said: “We ourselves put weapons into their (devils) hands, that they may assail us; those very weapons with which we should defend ourselves.”