276 – Stoneware bottle with oak apple stopper
- Physical description:
- Stoneware charm bottle sealed with wax, with seven gall nuts on the stopper.
- Museum classification:
- Protection
- Size:
- 240x125x125
- Information:
Original text by Cecil Williamson Reads Charm bottle made for the protection of cider apple orchards from frost, bugs of all sorts and to have the bees to fertilize the blossoms. Made by a green witch working the Ottery St Mary area.
Tightly corked and sealed with wax, seven oak apples, or to be precise seven gall nuts from the oak tree, serve as a symbolic symbol. Entrapped inside the spirit of cider rests on his sea bed of vintage cider, ever ready to burst forth should danger threaten.'- Resource:
- Object
- Materials:
- Ceramic, wax and plant material
- Copyright ownership:
- Copyright to The Museum of Witchcraft Ltd.
Original text by Cecil Williamson Reads Charm bottle made for the protection of cider apple orchards from frost, bugs of all sorts and to have the bees to fertilize the blossoms. Made by a green witch working the Ottery St Mary area.
Tightly corked and sealed with wax, seven oak apples, or to be precise seven gall nuts from the oak tree, serve as a symbolic symbol. Entrapped inside the spirit of cider rests on his sea bed of vintage cider, ever ready to burst forth should danger threaten.'