202 – Hare’s foot: Charm
- Physical description:
- Charm made from a hare's foot wrapped in a parchment talisman.
- Museum classification:
- Spells & Charms
- Size:
- 100 x 30 x 25
- Information:
CWOLC 10220 reads:
Hare's foot. Bound with a parchment charm made by a sorcerer in order to cure a [Scribbled out word] farmer who had injured his leg in a fall while foxhunting The work of Alic[e]? Rush of Stony-Stratford 1936.
Other Information
Hare's foot charm for travelers. This hare's foot charm wrapped in a written parchment talisman was purchased in Tavistock cattle market in 1957. This charm demonstrates the witches' knowledge of both medieval grimoires and folk magic.
[Source of this information is unknown]
Scarborough Museum has several rabbit's feet, all carried to bring good luck - one from Charleston USA, two from Midway, British Columbia, and one from Scarborough. They also have a number of other rabbit/hare related charms:- The blade bone of a rabbit, carried for good luck (Scarborough, 1911). Two pelvic bones of rabbits, carried by soldiers during WWI, one for good luck and the other to protect against venereal disease. The blade bone of a rabbit pierced with nine pins, used for divination (Hull, no date). A hare's tail, used by fishermen at the mouth of the Severn as a charm to bring a good catch (1914). (Information supplied by Tabitha Cadbury - see her report 'The Clarke Collection of Charms and Amulets' in the museum library.)
- Resource:
- Object
- Materials:
- Animal, parchment
- Copyright ownership:
- Copyright to The Museum of Witchcraft Ltd.
CWOLC 10220 reads:
Hare's foot. Bound with a parchment charm made by a sorcerer in order to cure a [Scribbled out word] farmer who had injured his leg in a fall while foxhunting The work of Alic[e]? Rush of Stony-Stratford 1936.
Other Information
Hare's foot charm for travelers. This hare's foot charm wrapped in a written parchment talisman was purchased in Tavistock cattle market in 1957. This charm demonstrates the witches' knowledge of both medieval grimoires and folk magic.
[Source of this information is unknown]
Scarborough Museum has several rabbit's feet, all carried to bring good luck - one from Charleston USA, two from Midway, British Columbia, and one from Scarborough. They also have a number of other rabbit/hare related charms:- The blade bone of a rabbit, carried for good luck (Scarborough, 1911). Two pelvic bones of rabbits, carried by soldiers during WWI, one for good luck and the other to protect against venereal disease. The blade bone of a rabbit pierced with nine pins, used for divination (Hull, no date). A hare's tail, used by fishermen at the mouth of the Severn as a charm to bring a good catch (1914). (Information supplied by Tabitha Cadbury - see her report 'The Clarke Collection of Charms and Amulets' in the museum library.)