“Alternatively, it may reflect a different practice common among sailors, where a bottle filled with urine was buried at their home as a superstitious measure to ensure a safe return from their voyages.”
Well, who doesn’t do this? On the rare times I leave the compound to, ‘go out among the English’ I leave a Witch Bottle behind. Better Safe than Sorry! ;)
I go out behind the barn, just don’t leave a bottle.