1480 – Ruth Quayle’s Bone & Chain Charm
- Physical description:
- Thin section of animal bone strung on short chain.
- Museum classification:
- Protection
- Information:
From CWOLC 8380: A bone and chain charm against witchcraft. These constructions were hung up in stables as a charm against hexing of the farm's horses. This one was recovered from the rafters of an old farm stable in Castletown Isle of Man in 1949. It was known to have been set there by the witch Ruth QUAYLE in 1921 and that she charged on shilling for the charm.
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The Lovett Collection in the Cuming Museum has a bone section similar to this one, which was hung up (using rope rather than a chain) in a stable in Holloway in London c. 1919 to protect the horses from illness.
Scarborough Museum has an interesting charm consisting of three hagstones and part of the pelvic bone of a sheep with a natural hole in it, threaded together on string, and sold by a wise woman as a charm to keep away witches; it was collected in Exmouth c. 1910. (See Tabitha Cadbury's report 'The Clarke Collection of Charms and Amulets' in the museum library.)- Resource:
- Object
- Materials:
- Bone, metal
- Copyright ownership:
- Treetrunk Ltd.
From CWOLC 8380: A bone and chain charm against witchcraft. These constructions were hung up in stables as a charm against hexing of the farm's horses. This one was recovered from the rafters of an old farm stable in Castletown Isle of Man in 1949. It was known to have been set there by the witch Ruth QUAYLE in 1921 and that she charged on shilling for the charm.
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The Lovett Collection in the Cuming Museum has a bone section similar to this one, which was hung up (using rope rather than a chain) in a stable in Holloway in London c. 1919 to protect the horses from illness.
Scarborough Museum has an interesting charm consisting of three hagstones and part of the pelvic bone of a sheep with a natural hole in it, threaded together on string, and sold by a wise woman as a charm to keep away witches; it was collected in Exmouth c. 1910. (See Tabitha Cadbury's report 'The Clarke Collection of Charms and Amulets' in the museum library.)