Urine, Fingernail-Filled 'Witch Bottle' Found

Discovery News ^ | June 4, 2009 | Jennifer Viegas

[Cailleach]

yummy! :P

[Cailleach]

[Red in Blue PA]

“the discovery provides a unique insight into witchcraft beliefs of that period”

Curious what type of “insight” they gain from this discovery.

[Nonstatist]

Curious what type of “insight” they gain from this discovery.

Well, it worked, didn't it? You see any witches walking about?

[WakeUpAndVote]

Imagine the stink if you threw that at a muzzie.

[SunkenCiv]

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[GeronL]

wouldn’t you rather find a coin?

[GeronL]

thier soda cans had pull tabs in those days?

[Cailleach]

I would have thought that the urine would have dissolved the fingernails after a while. Of course, from the picture, I don’t see fingernails...I see nails that need hammers. hmmmm

[Puppage]

someone urinated in a jar

I CAN RELATE...

[a fool in paradise]

Poppycock. We’ve been told that the witchhunts were bogus. There were no witches. Just as there were no Communists in the United States serving Stalin’s Soviet Union... < /sarc >

[Snurple]

[ken21]

early feminism.

[a fool in paradise]

[a fool in paradise]

Contemporary witch bottle

[floozy22]

In keeping with your theme...

[Oatka]

I CAN RELATE... (pic of Howard Hughes)

There was a hilarious scene in the sitcom "Wings" when they were talking about HH saving his fingernail clippings. Lowell (T.T. Church) says something like "Isn't it interesting how the rich and famous share habits like mine." Bryan (S. Webber) says, "Lowell, the man kept his urine in a jar!" Lowell is stunned. "This is AMAZING!" and walks offstage.

[Sidebar] Readers Digest had a story about a woman who reported a car break-in to the police, and was laughing while she talked. The cop asked her why and she said that she had been on her way to a urologist and was bring a sample that was in an old whiskey bottle. She laid it on the passenger seat and when she left the car for something, somebody saw the bottle, broke the glass, and swiped it.

[SunkenCiv]

DNA testing might work, dunno why one would want to, but could be interesting. :’)

[Sawdring]

Howard Hughes or long distance trucker? Truckers don’t usuall bury their urine bottles, they just throw them out the window.