19 – String Poppet Curse

Physical description:

Poppet made of knotted string, with pins in head and stomach.

Museum classification:

Curses

Size:

232x100x25

Information:

Original text by Cecil Williamson: 'In this glass box are a selection of poppet dolls as one finds them up and down the counties of Devon and Cornwall. The string-line figure is not a common type and the one made from bamboo sticks is a strange poppet, being a love doll made by the Egyptian mistress of a Devon- born navy man. A tale with a sad ending 1944. Plymouth.'
Another text by Cecil Williamson reads: '"Trouble down on the farm". Figure made from dyed binder twine and sent to a Sussex farmer by one of his farm hands whom he had discharged.'

Resource:

Object

Materials:

String and pins

Copyright ownership:

Copyright to The Museum of Witchcraft Ltd.

Original text by Cecil Williamson: 'In this glass box are a selection of poppet dolls as one finds them up and down the counties of Devon and Cornwall. The string-line figure is not a common type and the one made from bamboo sticks is a strange poppet, being a love doll made by the Egyptian mistress of a Devon- born navy man. A tale with a sad ending 1944. Plymouth.'
Another text by Cecil Williamson reads: '"Trouble down on the farm". Figure made from dyed binder twine and sent to a Sussex farmer by one of his farm hands whom he had discharged.'