1439 – Glass corked club shaped Witch Bottle

Physical description:: Club-shaped green glass witch bottle containing unknown substance. Bottle has BRISTOL and C KING embossed on outside of bottle and sealed with cork and wax. Probably a protection charm or counter charm to reverse a curse.
Museum classification:: Curses
Size:: 230 mm long
Information:: At one period these Indian club-shaped bottles were very popular for charm burials for they could with ease be driven into the soft mud at the edge of ponds and streams and so remain in a vertical position. A condition to certain forms of bottle magic.
See 1438.
Resource:: Object
Materials:: Glass etc.
Copyright ownership:: Treetrunk Ltd.

18 – Small Glass Corked Witch bottle

Corked glass witch bottle containing pins, hair, urine. Probably counter magic to reverse a curse or for general protection.

221 – Witch bottle Bellarmine Jar

17th century brown glazed jar with a face on the side, of the type known as a Bellarmine jar used as a witch bottle a charm to reverse an attack by witchcraft.

14 – Bellarmine Jar with boxed contents

Bellarmine Jar Witch Bottle a brown ceramic jar with a face on the side, originally containing pins, hair, nail clippings, bird bones and a red coral hand, now displayed separately in a glass-fronted box. Counter-magic to reverse a curse.