13 – Animal Liver

Physical description:

Animal livers with bite marks, in glass jar.

Museum classification:

Curses

Size:

250 mm

Information:

Original text by Cecil Williamson: 'To pierce with pins and thorns is one method, but west country witches also make use of biting as a means of correction. As with the dog, teeth are a good god-created weapon of defence or attack one cannot go up to a person and give them a hefty bite, so the witches do that by proxy, making use of an animal's lungs, heart or liver, you can see the bite mark in this preserved example.'

Resource:

Object

Materials:

Animal

Copyright ownership:

MWM

Original text by Cecil Williamson: 'To pierce with pins and thorns is one method, but west country witches also make use of biting as a means of correction. As with the dog, teeth are a good god-created weapon of defence or attack one cannot go up to a person and give them a hefty bite, so the witches do that by proxy, making use of an animal's lungs, heart or liver, you can see the bite mark in this preserved example.'