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icymist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 05:00 PM
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Witch Bottle Discovered; Made to Ward Off Evil Spirits?
October 29, 2009—In time for Halloween, a beer bottle-turned-talisman against malicious spirits has been found buried near a former pub in England, archaeologists say.

The newfound 17th-century witch bottle (pictured)—originally made in Germany to hold other kinds of spirits—was discovered during a September archaeological dig in the county of Staffordshire.

"It's not an everyday find," said excavation manager Andrew Norton of Oxford Archaeology, a U.K. archaeological-services company. "Most of what we find are broken bits of pots and people's rubbish."

In the 17th and 18th centuries in Britain, the supposedly cursed often put their bent toenails and fingernails, urine, and hair into the witch bottles.

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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-02-09 10:51 AM
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1. I found this interesting...
as three of my ancestors were killed in salem..
and their farm property split between the judge and the neighbor that accused them.
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-03-09 10:57 PM
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2. I just finished a book
based on the historical depositions and court records. Stories of the motivation of greed were documented. The torture that the "Christians" put innocents through is just unfathomable. I'm sorry to hear of your ancestors.
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