Witch Bottles and other magical things, a Witchy Wednesday article.

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German “bearded man” stoneware jugs are known to have been used in seventeenth-century America. Stoneware is fired at a higher temperature than earthenware, hot enough to make the clay vitrify or change into a glass like substance, resulting in a nonporous ceramic body. Thus, stoneware jugs made ideal long-term storage containers.
1660-1680 probably German.
Information from The Met Museum, Public Domain. 




Bellarmines!


Witch bottles or “bellarmines” were filled with potions that were said to counter the maleficent magic of a black witch. Normally the potions consisted of hair and urine provided by the victim of the curse, pins, needles and wine. The bottles were then burned or buried somewhere within the house, whereby the evil would be captured, impaled on the pins and drowned by the wine. Bellarmines have been discovered buried under fireplaces, floors, and even plastered inside walls.

Taken from BBC article please visit link below for more about British Witchcraft. 





Another fabulous article on Bellarmines
https://www.beachcombingmagazine.com/blogs/news/bellarmine-jugs-and-witch-bottles


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Kat 😊

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