Havela's granddaughter told Mannis that the box had been kept in her grandmother's sewing room and was never opened because a dybbuk--an evil spirit from Jewish folklore--was said to live inside it.
Havela's granddaughter told Mannis that the box had been bought in Spain after the Holocaust. She told him the box had been kept in her grandmother's sewing room and was never opened because a dybbuk was said to live inside it.