Angel shops where you buy gaudy statues of angels seem to have sprung up everywhere here in recent years. Are angel shops common in other countries? I’m not entirely sure what angel belief/worship entails but I’m intrigued that these shops seem to survive and indeed thrive here.
Heh. I can hear the Moore Street calls now – “Getchyer angels, two a foiver!”
I have not seen any here. You can buy an angel statue at our Borders, but there are no shops that I know of.
Around here, we have an “Angels Forever: Windows of Light” store that specializes in angels, crystals, tarot, aura photography, psychic readings, et cetera.
Basically, it’s a place for equal-opportunity, syncretic woo-ligion.
Is it like that in Dublin, or is it more limited to Christian angels?
An “angel shop” opened in my mother’s town last year. At the end of its three month lease it had gone bust. Hardly surprising. It was full of overpriced junk.
Angels were quite trendy in the US about, oh, 13-15 years ago? They were pretty new-agey-flavored angels, and there were certain paintings that were very popular and so on. I remember seeing at least one shop that seemed to specialize in angel stuff, though it probably had crystals too. Here’s a pretty typical book title. But I haven’t seen much about angels for several years now, thank goodness.
I’ve seen a similar shop with statues of saints and jesuses, several brands of incense, rosaries, tarot and fortune-telling stuff and other things as a botaníca in another city in Florida
As far as I can tell it includes all those things too. There is one store in Dublin that specialises in angels and native American healing or somesuch.
Over here, when you enter an ‘Angel Shop’, all you’re gonna get is hooks, lines and sinkers, and I don’t mean that metaphorically – ‘angeln’ means ‘to fish’, and there was actually a ‘Gordon’s Angel Shop’ in the small town my father used to live whose name I always misread.
I wouldn’t put it quite that far back. But there was definitely an angel fad in the nineties.
Yeah, I remember those. Angels and unicorns and crystals, all in one shop. I went in a couple of them to see if they had anything interesting. There was very little that I really thought I might buy, but everything was incredibly overpriced, to my mind.
Quite possibly–my brain says it was somewhere around the time I got married, so I just took a guess. I could be completely wrong, it may well have been later on.