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