We searched through the house and found 12! We have said hundreds of rosaries with those. We are throwing them away in the garbage. Has anyone else found any?

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CatholicinFL, I'm no priest, but may I suggest you destroy the evil rosaries, preferably by burning them or dissolving them in acid?  If you put them in the trash, someone else may find them and use them unwittingly as you did.  If you know where they came from, warn your friends and perhaps take other action.  Ask your priest first.  As for the hundreds of prayers, if you didn't know, then I wouldn't worry.  There is no sin where there is neither knowledge nor intent.  Definitely ask your priest about this, as well.  I'm curious as to what he'll answer.  

Perhaps we should place less emphasis on the physical object, and more on the prayer itself.

Of course, it is the prayer that counts with God, not the actual Rosary.  But why would anyone knowingly use an object associated with Satan to pray to the Mother of God who will crush his head?  It is true that the holiest Rosary can be prayed upon the cheapest beads or no beads at all, and a Rosary prayed without merit on beads made of diamonds and gold.

When you are praying to the Holy Virgin through the rosary you are not using anything related to the devil. In fact if there could concievably have been something originally related to the devil, praying the rosary is a kind of excorcism that forces the evil spirits to flee and will change the meaning of the item into a source for good.

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If you have a rosary that you like and find out that it has some
mark on it that's sinister, you can grind it off, or cut it off or use a
fingernail file to scrape it off.  But the priest blessing your rosary
is what makes it okay.

Just as when we say our blessing before meals:  the purpose is to
remove the food from the dominion of the devil.  It's not "giving
thanks before meals."  We give thanks AFTER meals.  The prayer
before meals is to EXORCISE the food before we eat it!  One of
the problems with false ecuмenism is that Catholics are starting
to act like protestants little by little, and one day they'll wake up
to find they have become protestant!  

If you can't afford to buy a good rosary, you can get free ones at
most traditional Catholic chapels.  They've got nice, oval plastic
beads strung on very durable nylon cord, with a solid plastic
centerpiece and traditional crucifix.  You can even volunteer to
make them and help others out that way.  

I know men who ONLY use those rosaries because they are
practically indestructible.  And the fact that they're free is a bonus.

The gang and subculture necklace thing comes from the practice
of prison ministry people giving rosaries to the inmates.  They wore
them as necklaces, then, and the rosary-necklace started to become
a kind of status symbol in the prisons!  So when certain prisoners
were released, they continued to wear rosaries on the 'outside',
and then when they got back into their drug market and stuff,
they looked for fancier materials for rosaries.  There are websites
that have rosaries made of gold and silver and precious stones.
You can spend tens of thousands of dollars on a "rosary necklace"
that doesn't even have 5 decades on it, but 4, because it "looks
better" that way.  Many of those are not used for prayer but for
a fashion accessory.  They might never get blessed.