520 – Black lemon: Cursing charm

Physical description:
Black lemon bound with black cord + stuck with pins
Museum classification:
Curses
Size:
50mm
Information:
The curse of the black lemon. Take a lemon, nice and fresh, stick into it glass headed black pins around these weave black threat in a criss-cross pattern. Then take to victim's house, secrete behind the curtains of the main living room. As the lemon dries and blackens so will the victim fade. One of the spells still in common usage in the south west.
Resource:
object
Materials:
Fruit
Copyright ownership:
Copyright to The Museum of Witchcraft Ltd.
The curse of the black lemon. Take a lemon, nice and fresh, stick into it glass headed black pins around these weave black threat in a criss-cross pattern. Then take to victim's house, secrete behind the curtains of the main living room. As the lemon dries and blackens so will the victim fade. One of the spells still in common usage in the south west.