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Urine, Fingernail-Filled 'Witch Bottle' Found
Discovery News ^ | June 4, 2009 | Jennifer Viegas

Posted on 06/04/2009 7:37:24 AM PDT by Cailleach

During the 17th century in England, someone urinated in a jar, added nail clippings, hair and pins, and buried it upside-down in Greenwich, where it was recently unearthed and identified by scientists as being the world's most complete known "witch bottle."

This spell device, often meant to attract and trap negative energy, was particularly common from the 16th to the 17th centuries, so the discovery provides a unique insight into witchcraft beliefs of that period, according to a report published in the latest British Archaeology.

(Excerpt) Read more at dsc.discovery.com ...


TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Religion
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; paganism; wicca; witchbottle; witchcraft; witches
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To: Sawdring
Truckers don’t usuall bury their urine bottles, they just throw them out the window

Naw, they mostly use the Pit Stop


21 posted on 06/04/2009 11:15:08 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Cailleach

I’ve always wondered why they don’t find more of these, especially in Massachusetts.


22 posted on 06/07/2009 8:33:48 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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