223 – Tittle Tattle Poppet Curse

Physical description:
Fabric poppet of face with blue button eyes and needle piercing mouth. Contained in box.
Museum classification:
Curses
Size:
125mm
Information:

Tittle-tattle is the curse of every village and hamlet in the UK. Well, this is how they deal with scandal-mongers in the south west. Items won secretly from Miss Wagging Tongue are fashioned into a face and a nice sharp needle or pin stuck through that false tongue. Paignton 1956. Text by Cecil Williamson

Resource:
Object
Materials:
Fabric, metal
Copyright ownership:
Copyright to The Museum of Witchcraft Ltd.

Tittle-tattle is the curse of every village and hamlet in the UK. Well, this is how they deal with scandal-mongers in the south west. Items won secretly from Miss Wagging Tongue are fashioned into a face and a nice sharp needle or pin stuck through that false tongue. Paignton 1956. Text by Cecil Williamson