Witch Bottles, a Witchy Wednesday article.

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Witch Bottles, a Witchy Wednesday article. 

Bartmann jug. 

Back in 2021 The Pitt Rivers Museum did a live investigation into a real Witches bottle which I recently found on youtube. 

Unstoppering a 17th-Century 'Witch Bottle'

'Witch bottles' is the name given to 17th-century glass and stoneware vessels believed to have been used as the containers of a 'prepared cure' against bewitchment. Their contents most commonly include pins and nails, but sometimes nail clippings and hair from the afflicted individual. They have been found placed in hearths or beneath the floors of present-day historic buildings, churchyards, ditches and riverbanks or are recovered from archaeological sites.

Links to Witch Bottle articles. Some of these are a few years old but contain interesting information and images of different Witch Bottles made from glass, pottery and more modern materials!

https://www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk/record-details?TNF935-Make-a-post-medieval-witch-bottle-%28Crafty-Idea%29

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-50186758

https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/agu-nsi-bottle-rowan-loops

https://www.horniman.ac.uk/object/1968.336/

https://www.mola.org.uk/discoveries/news/introducing-bartmann-goes-global

https://www.thenovium.org.uk/article/33861/Bellarmine-Jug

https://www.google.com/amp/s/museumcrush.org/the-300-year-old-witching-bottle-containing-fingernails-and-hair/amp/

https://www.mola.org.uk/discoveries/research-projects/witch-bottles-concealed-and-revealed

https://museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/object/witch-bottle-bellarmine-jar/

https://www.wandsworthhistory.org.uk/witch_bottle.htm

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